What will happen in #Ukraine in 2026? We asked 6 #journalists

In the last few months alone, Ukrainians have faced pressure from seemingly every side:

- Renewed push from US for unfavorable peace with Russia
- Major political corruption scandal
- Moscow’s continued advances east, north, south

With this in mind, we asked 6 journalists about what they expect to be covering in the coming year.

https://kyivindependent.com/from-russias-war-to-elections-in-ukraine-heres-what-our-journalists-expect-to-cover-in-2026/

#war #Ukraine #RussianAggression #RussianInvasion #RussianWarCrimes #WarCrimes

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/12/tuesday-december-23-2025/

#violence against reporters!
by Eric Berger, the Guardian

“The US #press have suffered about as many #assaults this year as in the previous three years combined, the Freedom of the Press Foundation states in a new report.”

“When the president models ridicule and #delegitimization it signals to [his] supporters that journalists are fair #targets,” said Lars Willnat, a Syracuse University professor who has studied the impact of political #polarization on perceptions of #journalists. “That shift matters because violence becomes easier to justify once journalists are seen as political #combatants rather than neutral observers.”
#Journalistsafety

For anybody that wishes a good quality, downloadable copy of the pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, here it is on the Internet archive. https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment

#StandUp4HumanRights #StandAgainstFascism #HumanRights #Journalists #Journalism

Reuters: New York Times reporter sues Google, xAI, OpenAI over chatbot training. “An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk’s xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta ​Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to ‌train their artificial intelligence systems.”

📢 #humanrights #activists, #journalists, and academics on Saturday condemned the detention of journalist Mohammad Faraj by Jordanian authorities, calling for his immediate release and disclosure of his legal status

#jordan #palestine #news

🔹 Lawyer and human rights activist Abdelmajid Marari told Al Mayadeen that Faraj’s arrest was “arbitrary,” noting that no charges have been made public

📰 Report Al Mayadeen DEC-20

Calls grow for release of detained Mohammad Faraj

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/calls-grow-for-release-of-detained-journalist-mohammad-faraj

russia’s supreme court OKs illegal charges & faked 'evidence' against Crimean #Tatar political prisoners

russian ‘judges’ saw no problem in rubberstamping an evident and internationally condemned attack on civic #journalists and activists from the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement

https://khpg.org/en/1608815373

#BillMaher is a bigot and a hypocrite

https://youtube.com/shorts/fPq6tngVZ7A

#DaveChappelle #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #SaudiArabia #journalists