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
#Belarus Poland's interior minister said that while @AndrzejPoczobut is in jail, Poland won't open the border crossing in Babrouniki. The regime keeps people hostage. While some manipulate and lobby for sanction lifting, Poland shows an example of a principled position.
#Belarus Journalist of @kpby Henadz Mazheika was sentenced to three years in jail. He wrote about Andrei Zeltser, a citizen of Minsk, who was killed in a shootout with KGB officers when they came to arrest him. Henadz simply did his job - he reported about Zeltser.
#Belarus "Ihar Łosik to geniusz internetu, próba samobójcza to krzyk o pomoc". Reżim znęca się nad blogerem i jego rodziną. Rozmawiałam z @aga_kaminska dla @PR24_pl o Białorusi oraz więźniach politycznych. Ihar Losik w więźnieniu popełnił próbę samobójczą https://polskieradio24.pl/5/1223/artykul/3139012,ihar-losik-to-geniusz-internetu-proba-samobojcza-to-krzyk-o-pomoc-rezim-zneca-sie-nad-blogerem-i-jego-rodzina
Posts by Hanna Liubakova:
The much-trumpeted conspirationalism
Not only was President Trump trying to coerce a foreign leader to find dirt on a political opponent, he also promotes a longstanding conspiracy theory originating in right-wing circles. As the rough transcript of Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
Knock, knock! It’s a post-truth world
How reality has become a subjective affair worldwide. When in 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published his acclaimed book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” Russia was very much of an exotic country, with no rules...
America’s thank you to the immigrant
Donald Trump has consistently made opposition to immigration the center of his politics and Twitter feed. On Broadway, immigration is a topic to sing about. On the evening of September 12, I happened to be in a theater in New York City, watching “Hamilton,” the...
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...
We asked different groups in Minneapolis what changed in their town after George Floyd's murder?
Not much, was their reply.
@worldpressinst
In @finnowl's first #WPIFellowship blog post, he wonders if the defamation case against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems will drag down other media, too. Minnesota academics and journalists weigh in:
https://worldpressinstitute.org/will-the-landmark-case-against-fox-news-drag-down-other-media-too/
Check out my latest @GlobalMinnesota podcast episode w/ @Fawzeyah & @SaqibTanveer of this year's @worldpressinst International Fellows! Hear about the challenges of conducting journalism and speaking truth to power in Nigeria and Pakistan.
https://www.globalminnesota.org/event/podcast-episode-global-journalism-with-world-press-institute-fellows/