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Reality TV-style politics meets reality itself

Reality TV-style politics meets reality itself

by Gergő Plankó | Oct 5, 2019 | American Presidency, Politics

In his victory speech after the presidential election in Ukraine this April, Volodymyr Zelensky said: “As long as I am not officially a president, I can say as a citizen of Ukraine to all countries of the post-Soviet Union: ‘Look at us, everything is possible.’” Even...
The biggest political turmoil since 2016

The biggest political turmoil since 2016

by Gergő Plankó | Oct 1, 2019 | Politics, Presidential Election

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi replied with two words when she was asked what changed her position about the impeachment of Donald Trump. “The facts,” she said, during a live interview on stage at the Texas Tribune Festival last week. We are in the middle of the biggest...
Knock, knock! It’s a post-truth world

Knock, knock! It’s a post-truth world

by Hanna Liubakova | Sep 23, 2019 | Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era

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...
What’s good about fake news

What’s good about fake news

by Hanna Liubakova | Aug 27, 2019 | Journalism in the era of "fake news", Journalism in the Trump Era, Social Media in Politics and Journalism

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...
NGOs curtail service as Trump sharply reduces refugee admissions to U.S.

NGOs curtail service as Trump sharply reduces refugee admissions to U.S.

by Rafael Gregorio | Sep 30, 2018 | Immigration, Immigration Reform, Journalism in the Trump Era, Presidential Election

Three months ago, William came to the United States after a years-long journey from South Sudan, a country immersed since 2013 in a civil war that has already killed 382,000 people, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. He says he is “a little older...

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