The European Parliament gave their top human rights award to a jailed Uyghur scholar. We went to Strasbourg to learn more about the treatment of him and other Chinese muslims.
The chair reserved for Ilham Tohti, this year’s Sakharov Prize laureate is empty. Jewher Ilham, his daughter, doesn’t want to be here either. She would rather live in a world where such awards wouldn’t need to exist.
“I have never signed up for this. I hate politics. I hate traveling…
The country is more diverse than it seems — if only you dig deeper, writes Karolis Vyšniauskas
“I don’t want Lithuanian newspapers to have similar headlines about violence, rape and robbery” says Valentinas Mazuronis, former member of the European Parliament, holding tabloid The Sun in his hands. He shares copies of the newspaper with his party members — the group disguising their far-right politics under the name…
Our year in relational journalism. By Karolis Vyšniauskas
What is the role of a journalist in the age of social media? That is the question I’ve been asking myself since 2008, the year I started studying journalism at Vilnius University. The same year I created my Facebook account.
by Aija Krutaine (Baltic Media Health Check 2017–2018 study)
When I was searching for media outlets with a strong footprint in Lithuania’s digital realm, the name of Nanook, a multimedia journalism startup that focuses on documentary projects about social issues, came up so often that I became curious. …
