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Evgeniy Maloletka, a photographer, picks his way through the aftermath of a Russian attack in Mariupol, Ukraine, in February 2022. Mstyslav Chernov/Associated Press, via PBS

We are living in the most thoroughly documented time in human existence. There are billions of us carrying cameras in our pockets, and the videos we make ricochet across the internet with astonishing ease: silly things, like dance moves and pratfalls, along with deadly serious things, like police officers murdering unarmed civilians or children choking on chemical weapons.

And yet we see through a glass darkly. We consume a stream of snippets, served to us chopped up and sometimes algorithmically curated, often stripped of context.

It is precisely because of this never-ending stream of images that the devastating new documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” seared into my brain when I saw it in a theater last week.…  Seguir leyendo »

Vladimir Putin on a phone-in, Moscow, 2021. Photograph: Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/ AFP/ Getty Images

Battlefield tanks are really only half the battle. Beyond military might on the ground in Ukraine, there is another critical confrontation in which the Kremlin has a superiority that must be challenged. The information war.

Russia’s media space has reverted to a grotesque parody of the Soviet-era model. (In fact, it’s far worse, as in the latter Soviet years at least, most people knew they were being fed lies). Television and the domestic press is utterly captured. Millions are fed a daily diet of Ukrainian “fascists”, western pederasts, and nuclear revenge on Anglo-Saxon civilisation.

It’s working. A broad consensus inside Russia still supports Putin and his wretched campaign in Ukraine.…  Seguir leyendo »

Soldiers tried to help a woman, her two children and a family friend after they were hit by Russian shelling in Kyiv, but all died. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

The following images depict graphic violence.

A couple of weeks ago I came across the graphic images of bodies littering the landscape in Bucha, Ukraine, a suburb a few miles west of Kyiv. Bucha was the latest example of Russia’s barbarity in this war, but one of the first things I thought of was Jonestown.

In November 1978, Time magazine sent me to that remote settlement in Guyana to check reports that Representative Leo Ryan, a California Democrat, had been killed there while investigating allegations that a group, a cult really, called the People’s Temple was holding people against their will.…  Seguir leyendo »

Hace seis meses, fui obligado a abandonar mi casa en Rusia para evitar una pena de prisión. ¿Mi crimen? Ser un periodista independiente. Tres años atrás, fundé un portal de periodismo de investigación llamado Proekt. Esto nos valió a mí y a mi equipo el atraer, con toda su fuerza, al aparato represivo instaurado por Vladímir Putin para silenciar a los medios críticos.

Primero nos acusaron de difamación.

Después, y tras haber sido detenidos e interrogados varias veces, Proekt fue declarada una "organización indeseable". La mayoría de mis empleados, incluyéndome a mí, fuimos tildados de "agentes extranjeros". Nuestra empresa está registrada en los Estados Unidos, por lo que los salarios percibidos por nuestros empleados cuentan como financiación extranjera.…  Seguir leyendo »

Encuentro del presidente de Ucrania con periodistas extranjeros el 3 de marzo de 2022. The Presidential Office of Ukraine

Decía Churchill que “en época de guerra, la verdad es tan preciosa que debería ser protegida de la mentira por un guardián”. En nuestras sociedades democráticas, el periodismo de guerra tiene una función esencial de testimonio y vigilancia. Por eso es tan importante el rigor ético del periodista y su compromiso con los hechos.

La cobertura de la guerra iniciada por Rusia contra Ucrania el pasado 24 de febrero nos muestra la oposición entre el periodismo libre y comprometido y la información dirigida y distorsionada que presenta Rusia, lo que llamamos desinformación.

Desde la perspectiva profesional, las redacciones de los medios occidentales han incorporado nuevos recursos para mejorar su cobertura informativa.…  Seguir leyendo »

El 20 de julio de 2016, Pavel Sheremet, un destacado periodista nacido en Bielorrusia, se dirigía a su trabajo en los estudios de Radio Vesti en Kiev, cuando el Subaru que conducía estalló en una concurrida intersección. Las ventanas cercanas temblaron; bandadas de pájaros echaron a volar. Sheremet (44) murió casi de inmediato, y la Fiscalía General de Ucrania confirmó enseguida que la causa de la explosión había sido una bomba. Un año después, el asesinato de Sheremet sigue sin resolver.

Si esto hubiera sido un atentado al azar, el Comité para la Protección de los Periodistas (CPJ, por la sigla en inglés) al que pertenezco no hubiera pasado todo un año investigándolo y presionando al gobierno ucraniano para que lo esclarezca.…  Seguir leyendo »

Pavel Sheremet ne pouvait pas être acheté ou soudoyé, il pouvait uniquement être inspiré par des gens et des idées, et en inspirer lui-même. C’était un journaliste honnête et persistant, affligé par la transformation de la Russie et de la Biélorussie en pays autoritaires. C’est seulement en Ukraine qu’il a, en tant que journaliste russophone, trouvé sa place : il était l’un des dirigeants du journal en ligne indépendant le plus lu d’Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda, depuis le début du soulèvement de Maïdan. Tout comme mes collègues, j’étais sous le choc quand j’ai appris qu’il avait été assassiné, tué par une bombe placée sous la voiture qu’il conduisait.…  Seguir leyendo »

In July 2014, I went to Donetsk, a separatist-controlled region in eastern Ukraine, to cover the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. It was a dangerous place at the time. The Ukrainian military and the rebels were shelling each other, and temperamental men with Kalashnikovs who had been known to kidnap journalists were everywhere.

Like many foreign reporters, I was there to relay what was happening to the remains of the downed flight’s 298 passengers and crew members. Before I went to the crash site, I obtained accreditation from the separatists. This did not guarantee that I would be safe, but it was the only way to get past the armed checkpoints.…  Seguir leyendo »

In 2013, there were more than 100 acts of violence against journalists in Ukraine, and nearly half of these occurred in December as riot police unleashed a wave of violence during the ongoing “Euromaidan” protests. Last week, well-respected Ukrainian journalist Tetyana Chernovil was brutally beaten on her way home. Opposition leaders suspect that act was orchestrated by the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych. The image of Chernovil’s bruised face has since been adopted by Euromaidan protesters as a symbol of state-sanctioned repression against Ukraine’s independent media .

Direct acts of physical violence are not the only means of repression that pro-government forces are using.…  Seguir leyendo »