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Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham was supposed to be on stage tonight. However, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) sanctioned him for dedicating a performance to the Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza - a move which led the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) to express concerns over freedom of speech. Following its controversial decision to cancel future performances by Gillham, the MSO is now seeking to dodge the controversy it created by backtracking and admitting it made a mistake. “The MSO acknowledges that an error was made in asking Jayson Gillham to step back ...
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Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham has been sanctioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) after making remarks on the deaths of Palestinian journalists in Gaza. At the concert at the Iwaki Auditorium on Sunday, Gillham, 37, performed a range of works, from Beethoven to Chopin. He also played 'Witness', written by Australian composer Connor D'Netto, which the MSO says was a last-minute addition. The piece was dedicated to “Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza.” "Over the last 10 months, Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinian journalists," Gillham said before starting the pi...
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It lasts only a few minutes, but the weather report brings its own kind of atmosphere to France. Every evening at 8pm, a familiar anchor from state broadcaster France Télévisions steps into people’s homes with “a warm hello” and tells them about tomorrow. Televised forecasts have been a staple of daily life since the 1940s; changing such a trusted format is no small matter. But the way the climate crisis is disrupting our weather demands innovation, so last year the broadcaster turned its traditional report into a climate change-informed weather report, Journal Météo-Climat. “We see it as the ...
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A Moscow court sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, as part of Russia’s intensifying crackdown on opposition media. Zygar was charged with “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation,” according to the statement shared by the court. The charges were based on an Instagram post from April 2022, where Zygar accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine. Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, was occup...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
A Moscow court sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, as part of Russia’s intensifying crackdown on opposition media. Zygar was charged with “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation,” according to the statement shared by the court. The charges were based on an Instagram post from April 2022, where Zygar accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine. Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, was occup...
Kyiv Independent
A Moscow court sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, as part of Russia’s intensifying crackdown on opposition media. Zygar was charged with “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation,” according to the statement shared by the court. The charges were based on an Instagram post from April 2022, where Zygar accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine. Bucha, a suburb northwest of Kyiv, was occup...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Photojournalist Christina Assi on Sunday carried the Olympic torch in Paris to honour journalists wounded and killed in the field. She and five others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on south Lebanon last October. The attack killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah. Assi was severely wounded and had part of her right leg amputated. AFP videographer Dylan Collins, also wounded in the Israeli attack, pushed Assi's wheelchair as she carried the torch across the suburb of Vincennes Sunday. Their colleagues from the press agency and hundreds of spectators cheered them on. “I wish Issam was h...
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New York Times opinion columnist Masha A. Gessen was sentenced in absentia on July 15 by a Moscow court to eight years in prison over comments Gessen made about Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the New York Times, Gessen was convicted by the Basmanny District Court for spreading "false information" about Russia's military, having described the massacre committed by Russian Armed Forces in Bucha and neighboring communities during an interview in 2022 with a Russian journalist. Russian authorities charged the Russian-born American journalist in August 2022 - with the verdict...
Kyiv Independent
New York Times opinion columnist Masha A. Gessen was sentenced in absentia on July 15 by a Moscow court to eight years in prison over comments Gessen made about Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the New York Times, Gessen was convicted by the Basmanny District Court for spreading "false information" about Russia's military, having described the massacre committed by Russian Armed Forces in Bucha and neighboring communities during an interview in 2022 with a Russian journalist. Russian authorities charged the Russian-born American journalist in August 2022 - with the verdict...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
New York Times opinion columnist Masha A. Gessen was sentenced in absentia on July 15 by a Moscow court to eight years in prison over comments Gessen made about Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the New York Times, Gessen was convicted by the Basmanny District Court for spreading "false information" about Russia's military, having described the massacre committed by Russian Armed Forces in Bucha and neighboring communities during an interview in 2022 with a Russian journalist. Russian authorities charged the Russian-born American journalist in August 2022 - with the verdict...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
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