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Mar 2 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
📌TODAY. Lead Russia investigator for investigative news site @bellingcat @christogrozev will join us for our #RISJSeminars series, w/chair @MeeraSelva1 sharing insights from his work and useful tips to cover the war in Ukraine.

🕐13:00 🇬🇧
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💻@christogrozev is a journalist and executive director of @bellingcat. He has received multiple awards, including the 2019 European Press Prize Investigative Reporting Award for an investigation into the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
europeanpressprize.com/article/unmask…
@EliotHiggins, founder of @bellingcat which relies on Open Source Intelligence, described his non-journalism background as an advantage in his work, and said he didn't see journalism "as something that has to be separate from advocacy or activism."
pressgazette.co.uk/bellingcat-exp…
Meanwhile, here are some more pieces around journalism's place in the crisis.

1⃣ Russia has ordered access to be restricted to independent TV channel Dozhd TV and radio station Ekho Moskvy, accusing them of spreading “deliberately false information”.
independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…
2⃣ Responding to Ursula von der Leyen's call for RT and Sputnik to be banned in the EU, @EFJEUROPE's @Molenews1 said "the total closure of a media outlet does not seem to me to be the best way to combat disinformation or propaganda."
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2022/03/0…
3⃣ Here is a live sanctions tracker from @correctiv_org to see which individuals and organisations have been sanctioned and by whom, and with additional context on the effectiveness of these measures.
correctiv.org/en/latest-stor…
4⃣ News outlets outside of Ukraine can offer help in several ways writes @davidtvrdon including supporting fundraising campaigns, sharing reader revenue, donating equipment, and opening newsrooms to Ukrainian journalists.
thefix.media/2022/03/01/fiv…
5⃣ Chinese state media coverage of the war has "focused more on efforts toward negotiations, and less on Russia’s attack," and features in a relatively late slot during TV news broadcasts, according to this analysis by @chengevelyn
cnbc.com/2022/03/02/her…

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