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Major newspapers join forces to support Evan Gershkovich

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

America's largest newspapers - The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times - are dedicating their pages to the Journal's Evan Gershkovich as he spends his fourth week behind bars in a Russian prison, facing trumped-up charge of espionage. The papers are running a full-page letter in their print editions, where they write: "As editors and publishers of some of America's largest news organizations, we are united in calling for his immediate release. Reporting is not a crime." His arrest is one of the latest flashpoints in a world where autocratic leaders increasingly feel free to lock up anybody who can be used as a political pawn - anyone they perceive as a threat to their rule. Christiane sat down with The Wall Street Journal's Editor-in-chief Emma Tucker to discuss what she's doing to help bring Evan home.  Also on today's show: Yusra Ghannouchi, daughter of jailed Tunisian activist Rached Ghannouchi; Jacob Bogage, Business Reporter, The Washington Post  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

It was simply outrageous that he got picked up doing his job.

0:12.0

As America's biggest newspapers call for that he got picked up doing his job.

0:12.6

As America's biggest newspapers call for the release of journalist Evan Gerskovich, jailed by Russia,

0:18.8

I ask his boss Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal,

0:23.0

what it will take to free him.

0:24.7

Then Democracy on Life Support in Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab Spring.

0:29.7

I speak to Yusra Ganucci, daughter of the Movement's imprisoned leader, also ahead.

0:35.0

These are kids who are in meat packing plants.

0:38.6

Putting children to work.

0:40.4

Harry Strynavas and asks the Washington Post Jacob Bogage why conservatives want to relax America's child labor laws.

0:48.0

And finally, how panda sharing has now become a symbol of diplomatic decay between China and the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in New York. America's largest

1:12.4

newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post,

1:15.6

and the New York Times are dedicating their pages to the journals Evan Gerskovich,

1:21.0

as he spends his fourth week behind bars in a Russian prison facing

1:25.1

the trumped-up charge of espionage. The papers are running this full-page letter

1:29.8

in their print editions, where they write,

1:32.6

as editors and publishers of some of America's

1:35.2

largest news organizations,

1:37.1

we are united in calling for his immediate release.

1:40.3

Reporting is not a crime. His arrest is one of the latest flash points in a world where autocratic leaders increasingly feel free to lock up anybody who can be used as a political porn and anyone they perceive as a threat to their

1:54.6

rule. Well, this week I sat down with the Wall Street Journal's editor-in-chief Emma

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