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An interview I did with the Reuters Institute at Oxford earlier this year is now online: Maurice Oniang’o and I spoke about the threats facing journalists today and how to think about digital safety in the newsroom.
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Snigdha Poonam has spent the past decade reporting on transnational fraud. Then she was targeted by an author scam. Here’s the story of how she found herself “stuck in a Zoom book club with fake readers” and began exploring the lucrative world of literary scams.
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A new investigation from the BBC tells the story of Russians working with Ukraine. It’s a story about modern warfare, agents and double agents, and what it takes to secretly aid Ukrainian intelligence.
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Barents Observer, a nonprofit regional news outlet in Kirkenes, Norway covering Scandinavia and the Arctic, has become a safe haven for exiled Russian journalists. Columbia Journalism Review has a great article about “Putin’s least favorite newsroom.”
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And a Russian billionaire is suing that Norwegian news outlet in the U.K. because *checks notes* "The Barents Observer publishes in English."
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Vulnerabilities in the PHP computer language resulted in the shutdown of websites around the world last week. I spoke to Reuters about what you should know and how to keep safe online.