Author: Hanna Liubakova
2019 WPI Fellow
Bio: Hanna is an investigative journalist and researcher from Belarus. For the past six years she has written for various Belarusian and international media outlets. Her prior experience includes radio, digital and television production, including work for Radio Free Europe as a recipient of Vaclav Havel Fellowship. She also worked as a Belsat TV presenter and correspondent from Prague, London, Warsaw and Brussels, among others.
Website: https://medium.com/@hanna.liubakova
Twitter: @HannaLiubakova
Inspired by the musical about #Hamilton, I wrote this blog for @worldpressinst:
„What if a founding father would never made it to the United States? Emma Lazarus whose poetry is engraved on the Statue of Liberty should be crying somewhere quietly.” https://t.co/DwOPhs9v7P
Posts by Hanna Liubakova:
Meritocracy might be a sham. But there’s no reason to think education is bad for America
In December 2017, I graduated from one of the UK universities. Merely because I was an international, non-EU student, my tuition fee was much higher than what home students had to pay. I was luckier than many of them, though. I got a scholarship that covered the fee...
Truly American mass shootings
On Saturday evening, I was in the middle of dinner with my American friends when we heard that a gunman started shooting at cars near Odessa, Texas. Seven people were killed and at least 22 people were wounded, including a 17-month-old girl. Authorities have...
What’s good about fake news
In my first week as a World Press Institute fellow, I found myself at a discussion over the U.S. presidential election and journalism in the age of Trump. The term “fake news” has become widely used especially after Donald Trump’s first press conference as...
We are happy to announce the selection of the 2019 World Press Institute (WPI) fellows! Read more about the 2019 WPI Fellows and view their photos here: https://t.co/PEepuQI8Lu
Happy Holidays from WPI! If you are a foreign journalist looking to immerse yourself in the governance, politics, business, media, journalistic ethics and culture of the US, we are now accepting applications for our 2019 fellowship program: https://t.co/UuT18UAzyw.