In November 2021, a group of Ukrainian journalists quit their oligarch-owned newspaper and set up a new online publication. They were not the first journalists to turn their backs on an interfering boss – and they won’t be the last. What sets them apart is the fact that, only months after they launched the Kyiv Independent as an English-language newspaper, they found themselves reporting on a war – in their own country.
How could these reporters, many of whom were more used to writing about fashion and culture, deal with the existential threat, not only to their jobs (most journalists are used to that) but to their lives?
