@barrymalone.bsky.social
Independent journalist. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.
In today's Proximities.
- Horrific report points to genocide in Ethiopia
- A Palestinian mother's story - just one of many
- And Bukele clears path for third term
As always, it can be read in under two minutes.
www.proximities.news/p/ethiopia-g...
In today's Proximities:
- Children are starving to death in Sudan
- West Bank: Levin and Katz say it out loud again
- Aid to come, finally, for Syria's Sweida
As always, you can read it in under two minutes.
www.proximities.news/p/sudan-pale...
In today’s Proximities:
- Major attack by rebels in Burkina Faso
- The truth about Gaza’s aid drops
- And a hunger crisis nobody is talking about
As always, can be read in under two minutes.
www.proximities.news/p/burkina-fa...
Thanks, Roger!
29.07.2025 17:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks, Graham. Also completely agree on UK. Private Eye often does important work that other orgs should be looking at too.
29.07.2025 16:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0News sources I like:
💻 www.404media.co is tech news, but for the people
🌍 proximities.news by @barrymalone.bsky.social: 3 non-Western stories per day, in under 2 minutes
🌏 Nikkei Asia: news on Asia from Asia, in English
🇫🇷 Le Monde English: www.lemonde.fr/en
The first edition of my relaunched newsletter is out. Today, Proximities covers stories from DR Congo, the West Bank and Thailand-Cambodia. As always, you can read it in under two minutes. www.proximities.news/p/dr-congo-p...
29.07.2025 15:57 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Thanks, Ann : )
29.07.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gina! Thank you so much for your kind subscription
29.07.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Peter, that is so so generous. Thank you.
29.07.2025 00:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks so much, Leah : )
28.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anyway, any and all support from you guys gratefully received. A free subscription, a paid one, a retweet, a kind emoji. It all counts 🙏🏻
28.07.2025 18:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'd be lying if I said watching how the mainstream media has failed on reporting the Gaza genocide didn't also give me the push to go independent. What has been heartening throughout is seeing independent outlets fill the space left behind. They've never been more important.
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Read more about Proximities - and subscribe! - here.
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I'm planning a few projects but first step will be to relaunch my newsletter Proximities. It summarises three non-Western news stories a day and you can read it in under two mins. Monday - Friday it's completely free. There will also be a paid tier with a bonus Saturday edition.
28.07.2025 18:15 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Personal news: I've decided to leave my job as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the Thomson Reuters Foundation to go independent. It's a scary move but I want to concentrate on amplifying under-reported stories.
28.07.2025 18:15 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.
10.02.2025 07:43 — 👍 489 🔁 249 💬 4 📌 3hahahahahahahaha. Amazing!
Miss you, man.
At home in Dublin. And I don’t need a filter.
29.12.2024 21:40 — 👍 79 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0In November and early December I was in Beirut for @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social writing a report on attacks on journalists in Lebanon during the war. It’s out today www.gc4hr.org/attacked-fro...
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17.12.2024 13:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Destroyed me. It was so beautiful.
16.12.2024 11:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Georgia:
Am hearing independent journalist Vato Bzhalava was taken by police on the street in Tblisi while walking his dog this morning, that he was abused in custody & is still detained
@politico.eu @fulelo.bsky.social @barrymalone.bsky.social
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Statement from the White Helmets who have now concluded search operations at Sednaya Prison
09.12.2024 23:01 — 👍 258 🔁 141 💬 1 📌 10If you want to do good coverage, interview Syrians. That really shouldn't be rocket science.
09.12.2024 17:42 — 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0I can't stand it when people say "the first Western journalist to report from". Who cares? What is it supposed to mean? That their reporting will be somehow better than the local journalists already there? Puts me in mind of colonisers "discovering" other people's countries.
09.12.2024 15:41 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1a boring point I would make on blocklists is that journalists will often need to follow questionable people, because it can be part of our jobs, so you may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater by subscribing to any list that's based on "everyone who follows X or Y"
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Al Jazeera rolling coverage of Syria streaming here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNe...
08.12.2024 03:06 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Reuters reporting, per two senior Syrian officers, that President Bashar Al-Assad has left Damascus headed to an unknown destination.
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Oh hell yes.
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