Turning the news into stories worth watching | Simon Ostrovskiy | TEDxKyiv

December 13th, 2015. TEDxKyiv 2015: I'mPulse.
Simon Ostrovsky says making the news more watchable is easy if you're trying to tell a story instead of beat a deadline. He had to learn the hard way during the war in Ukraine, where he often missed deadlines but galvanised a generation news newbies to tune in to international reporting.

Simon Ostrovsky is an award-winning American journalist and documentary filmmaker for VICE News. He has covered the former Soviet Union extensively for a number of outlets but is best known for his Emmy-nominated VICE News series, Russian Roulette, which gave viewers an unvarnished view of the Ukrainian conflict from the ground. More recently he produced a documentary titled Selfie Soldiers for VICE News, which uses the social media posts of a Russian soldier to track his unit's movements from its base in Siberia to the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, disproving the Kremlin's official claims that Russia had no part in the war.

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