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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was released from Russian captivity on Thursday as part of the largest prisoner swap between Russia and Western nations in decades. Gershkovich had been imprisoned for nearly 500 days and was recently sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony. Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 while on assignment in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Russian authorities claimed he was obtaining information for the CIA, though the allegations against Gershkovich are widely assumed to be false and have been denied strenuously by the Journal. Gershkovich was released around 11...
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Two Ukrainian photojournalists came under Russian artillery fire on July 19 while documenting the war in Ukraine from a trench near the front line in Donetsk Oblast. Olga Kovalyova, senior project manager for the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP), was evacuated and hospitalized after receiving three shrapnel wounds, the UAPP said in a statement. She is in stable condition. Another photographer, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, suffered a concussion but did not require hospital treatment. "I was saved by a bulletproof vest and a helmet. The shrapnel got to a place where there wa...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Two Ukrainian photojournalists came under Russian artillery fire on July 19 while documenting the war in Ukraine from a trench near the front line in Donetsk Oblast. Olga Kovalyova, senior project manager for the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP), was evacuated and hospitalized after receiving three shrapnel wounds, the UAPP said in a statement. She is in stable condition. Another photographer, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, suffered a concussion but did not require hospital treatment. "I was saved by a bulletproof vest and a helmet. The shrapnel got to a place where there wa...
Kyiv Independent
Two Ukrainian photojournalists came under Russian artillery fire on July 19 while documenting the war in Ukraine from a trench near the front line in Donetsk Oblast. Olga Kovalyova, senior project manager for the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP), was evacuated and hospitalized after receiving three shrapnel wounds, the UAPP said in a statement. She is in stable condition. Another photographer, Vladyslav Krasnoshchok, suffered a concussion but did not require hospital treatment. "I was saved by a bulletproof vest and a helmet. The shrapnel got to a place where there wa...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
The Washington Post has launched its own chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to answer its readers’ questions about climate. Accessible online, the "experimental" tool’s "responses are based solely on published reporting by Post journalists," the publication said, adding that the outlet’s team has been covering climate and environment for more than two decades. However, the tool only searches through articles from the past eight years. As newsrooms start to embrace generative AI, what does that mean for journalism?Use of generative AIThe chatbot is powered by a large language model...
Euronews (English)
My first ever job in journalism was at something called Hollywood Crush, a young Hollywood news and gossip site that was part of the larger MTV News ecosystem. Although the MTV brand still had a certain cool-kid cachet, left over from a time before it became associated primarily with teen reality shows, I was not exactly pounding the pavement for the groundbreaking stories that would change the world. By the time I left—laid off in one of those periodic mass purges that were as much a hallmark of 2010s journalism as the Buzzfeed-style listicle—my greatest contribution to the discourse was a we...
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In 2022, photojournalist Benjamin Hendren photographed some police officers arresting a group of protesters. Even though Hendren didn't interfere with police activity—he even offered to let the officers speak with his editor—the officers arrested him. What's more, they even encouraged employees at the construction site being protested to fabricate statements about Hendren. Hendren has now filed a lawsuit against the officers who arrested him, arguing he was punished for exercising his First Amendment rights. On July 29, 2022, Hendren heard over a police radio that police had arrived at the sce...
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My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous, by Barrett Brown, MCD, 416 pages, $30 Seven years after his release from federal prison, Barrett Brown has published a memoir recounting his time in the company of the hacker group Anonymous and his time behind bars, as well as an updated list of every person he now despises. Lest followers of the social media star turned transparency martyr think they've heard all this before, My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous digs deeper into Brown's psyche than anything he's divulged before. To wit: "The institution of bed-makery w...
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In May, the New York State government agreed to subsidize news media. With audiences declining for news reports, many Very Concerned People have called on governments to Do Something to prop up outlets failing to win enough public support to keep the lights on. That something comes in the form of money unlikely to win back an indifferent public but that stabilizes employment prospects for reporters. The result may be that journalists will cater to state officials rather than woo readers and viewers. New York's Welfare for Journalists"With the passage of this bill, New York is now the first sta...
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Why is marijuana legalization such a mess in New York? The answer seems clear: The rollout of licensed dispensaries has been "a disaster," as Gov. Kathy Hochul puts it, because of misguided policies and bureaucratic ineptitude. But Manhattan Institute Fellow Charles Fain Lehman is unsatisfied by that explanation. He prefers one that makes little sense but gives him an excuse to discuss "the real problem with legal weed": that marijuana addiction is more common and severe than people tend to think. In a recent New York Times Magazine article, Lehman argues that Americans generally do not take t...
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