The Age of Impunity: Hidden Frontlines in the War in Ukraine
Channel: British Library
Date: 2023-01-26

Journalism and the war against reality

This event took place on the 19th of July 2022. The information below is correct as of the date posted.

There used to be ‘grand narratives’ underpinning our understanding of everything from the behaviour of states to literature. But Putin’s war in Ukraine shows how storylines that once connected us have now collapsed. This event brings together frontline journalists in a call for urgent new thinking on what binds us, from London to Moscow.

Natalia Antelava is a former BBC foreign correspondent turned co-founder and editor-in-chief of Coda Story. Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia, Natalia started her career in West Africa, then reported for the BBC from the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and India. She covered the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Her reporting on disinformation and human rights abuses won an Emmy nomination. Natalia has written for the Guardian, Forbes and the New Yorker.

Peter Pomerantsev is a Research Fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He has testified on the challenges of information war to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the UK Parliament Defence Select Committee. His book Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 RSL Ondaatje Prize. His latest book is This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality.

Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and author specializing in conflict reporting. She is the founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab, and now a founding member and lead journalist at The Reckoning Project: Ukraine testifies which is documenting war crimes and digital storytelling to achieve justice and safeguard rights.

Shaun Walker is Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent for The Guardian. He spent much of 2022 in Ukraine, covering the Russian invasion. Previously, he spent more than a decade in Moscow and is the author of The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past, published in 2018.

Coda Story is an award-winning media start-up that reports on major currents shaping our world from disinformation to authoritarian technologies to the war on science. Coda stays on these stories to reveal why they matter, how they are connected and where they are heading next.

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