Espreso TV, an independent outlet in Ukraine, has a live video broadcast of the bloody clash in Kiev between protesters and authorities. Nine people have died in today’s confrontation, reports the BBC.
The big picture matters. Yesterday a heart-wrenching photo on Twitter spread wildly. It appeared to show a little boy separated from his family as they fled Syria’s violence: “UN staff found 4 year-old Marwan crossing desert alone after being separated from family…”
Some 20 years ago gray wolves were re-introduced to Yellowstone Park in the United States. Their impact has been a transformation of an ecosystem, in ways that few scientists had imagined. But even as the animals are celebrated as a “keystone” species
Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs have a lot to answer for: thanks partly to fairy tales, wolves have a ghastly and global reputation as big and bad, terrorists of young girls and small pigs, good for nothing but their
F&O wraps up the week with an eclectic range of slow journalism from the past, present and future: Critical Assembly: A Drama Critic Remembers Berlin. Two years before the wall came down, in 1987, historian and author Brian Brennan joined 139 other writers
By Brian BrennanPublished February 15, 2014 We came to Berlin, a city politically divided, to talk about theatre criticism. We were 140 writers from 40 countries and for the better part of a week we wrangled like arms control negotiators. It was
JONATHAN MANTHORPEFebruary 14, 2014 When Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez died last March there were some hopes the end of his strutting, belligerent and goading influence would calm the country’s violently polarised politics. No such luck. This week Chavez’ replacement as President and
Museum director and author Jack Lohman issues a warning about the future of our cultural institutions — and why they matter to increasingly cosmopolitan and multicultural societies: We have entered another Churchillian “period of danger,” but one of an unprecedented nature. We
Greetings on Valentine’s day, with a new ditty from American singer-songwriter (and journalist) Andy Revkin. … and if a slight country tang is not your thing, here — just because — is Peggy Lee’s unforgettable jazz classic Fever, from the 1950s:
Journalists paid by industry or a partisan outfit are no longer “journalists.” They are practicing professional public relations. So where does that leave Canada’s Rex Murphy vis a vis his freelance jobs with Canada’s public broadcaster, as a commentator on the flagship