KYIV—Back in 2019, I worked on a piece about the brutal murder of a Ukrainian journalist in Cherkasy, a city in central Ukraine. While I was doing some preliminary research about the regional media scene—almost entirely controlled by local oligarchs and power brokers, it turned out— I stumbled upon this very strange headline: in 2017, 530 journalists in the Cherkasy region had
The Long War #14
The Long War #14
The Long War #14
KYIV—Back in 2019, I worked on a piece about the brutal murder of a Ukrainian journalist in Cherkasy, a city in central Ukraine. While I was doing some preliminary research about the regional media scene—almost entirely controlled by local oligarchs and power brokers, it turned out— I stumbled upon this very strange headline: in 2017, 530 journalists in the Cherkasy region had