Inside Russia’s Crackdown on Journalists

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For the first time since the Cold War, an American reporter has been charged with espionage in Russia. On this week’s On the Media, hear about one journalist who stayed to cover Putin’s invasion, and from one who left. Plus, a look at why NPR has sworn off Twitter for good, and how it will affect people who get their news from the app.

1. OTM producer Molly Schwartz [@mollyfication], takes a deep dive into the imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, and the challenges of reporting on the ground in Russia right now. Listen.

2. Nikita Kondratyev, reporter for Novaya Gazeta Europe, on leaving Russia and covering Putin's invasion in exile. Listen.

3. Zoe Schiffer [@ZoeSchiffer], managing editor of Platformer, on Elon Musk's newest fight with the press and the departure of NPR from Twitter. Listen .

Music from this week's show: Berotim - John ZornWe Insist - Zoe KeatingApril - KinoFellini’s Waltz - Enrico PieranunziBryter Layter - Nick DrakeBlue Monk - Jimmy GiuffreCello Song - Nick Drake

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0:00.0	The arrest of Evan Gershkovic for espionage has sent shock waves around the world.
0:06.0	It's utter rubbish. Evan was doing what reporters do. He was out there gathering news,
0:12.8	providing an eyewitness account of what's going on inside Russia.
0:16.4	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brock Gladstone. Meanwhile, Berlin has become a hub
0:23.2	for exiled Russian journalists. There's three biggest issues.
0:27.2	The first one is depression. Everyone is depressed and struggling with it.
0:31.4	The second one is German migration laws. And the first thing is how to work.
0:36.5	Plus, Twitter's changing relationship with the news, starting with YNPR left the platform
0:43.0	after they were labeled as state-funded. It essentially challenged the credibility of our content,
0:49.0	and that's just something that I'm unwilling to compromise. We just don't think it's a viable
0:53.9	platform for news content anymore. It's all coming up after this.
1:02.6	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brock Gladstone. This week we had a
1:08.8	mother of a big old leak. Around a hundred pages of classified slides and briefing materials
1:14.4	from the Pentagon have now been found floating around the internet. The documents range from
1:19.1	briefing slides mopping out Ukrainian military positions to assessments of international support
1:24.0	for Ukraine. The leaked documents surfaced on Discord, an online messaging app popular with
1:30.0	gamers. An anonymous user called OG posted them in a small chat room with about 25 people,
1:36.6	the kind of place where you'd expect to find obscure posts about video game tactics and some
1:42.6	unsavory memes. The evidence suggests that OG wasn't an activist or a firebrand, just kind of
1:50.6	a show off, seen on video shouting racist slurs while firing a gun. The documents were leaked
1:58.1	when one server member posted them to win an argument about the war in Ukraine. After that,
2:04.9	the leaked documents started circling around a few other private discord, including a Minecraft
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