“Cake and Casualties” – Christoph Reuter (Das Spiegel)

“A family stands at the grave of Danylo Boguslavskyi, born on April 7, 1990, and killed in action on October 16, 2022. “We always come on Saturdays,” says his brother Roman. “One Saturday, I drove him to the station. That was the last time we saw him. He was a lawyer and historian and was present at the Maidan protests in Kyiv in 2014. He volunteered after Russia’s invasion and was then wounded several times. For a while, he was in the hospital every month,” Roman recalls. It was almost as if the injured man maintained the hope that, by getting wounded again and again, he would be given a reprieve and would never be killed. Until he was”

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/russlands-krieg-gegen-die-ukraine-uschhorod-der-friedlichste-ort-der-ukraine-a-48943553-cba2-4c04-8cc2-6dd4f6a10a14

“Zombie news: the strange resurrection of the local paper” – Will Dunn (New Statesman)

“It was not a real newspaper but a zombie – a piece of promotional material created for the local Conservative MP, Robert Largan, by a company in nearby Manchester. As such, it was just the latest example of how the local newspaper industry, which has been all but destroyed, is now being replaced. Freed from the oversight of local reporters and editors, businesses and politicians have begun to create their own information networks – they look like local news, but report only the things their owners want the public to see”

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2023/11/zombie-news-the-strange-resurrection-of-the-local-paper