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When considering how media training and social media have changed celebrity interviews in the last decade, entertainment reporter Anthony Breznican (@breznican ) shares with DEPTH PERCEPTION that people are more cautious about what they say because things are so often taken out of context. He shares that “people just don’t want to say what’s on their mind, and I think that’s a pity. I think saying what’s on your mind is how we open people’s minds — and how you sharpen your own opinion if you disagree.” Read Breznican’s full DEPTH PERCEPTION interview with @jennaschnuer on Substack. #journalism #entertainment #entertainmentreporter #entertainmentindustry

You probably run into twins in your day-to-day life but they’re probably not dressed alike. Yet during the annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, OH, twins celebrate their sameness, walking in the parade and competing in costume contests. But the event is about more than matching outfits and genetic curiosities; it’s a meditation on human connection, community, and what twins might teach the rest of us about combating loneliness in an increasingly isolated world. Check out Long Lead’s feature DOUBLE MEANING and the TWINS FEST documentary — finalist for Society of Publication Designers Feature Video, Documentary, and Video of the Year — today at the link in our bio.

Don’t call @davidsirota a liberal journalist. Ever. Though the journalist and founder of investigative news outlet The Lever covers people who would label themselves conservative, Sirota is driven by one of journalism’s overarching ideas: to hold the powerful accountable. For DEPTH PERCEPTION, Sirota talks with @jennaschnuer about what it takes to lay out the facts about the country’s most powerful people, his devotion to transparency and fact checking, and the process of turning cut and dry reporting into a gripping podcast. Read now at the link in our bio. #journalism #podcast #investigativejournalism #politics

In Long Lead’s new feature BORDER LINE WAR, Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak captures the impact of the war in Ukraine on its neighboring countries: their perceptions of and relations with Russia, the influence of the U.S., and the evolution of their own national security policies after the invasion. Dworzak began traveling along the Russian border from Norway to eastern Kazakhstan in 2023, documenting military training, landscapes, museums, and ordinary life, exploring the tensions linked to a painful past that’s been reawakened by Putin’s imperial push into Ukraine. With expert analysis from foreign affairs columnist Christian Caryl, BORDER LINE WAR shows how countries from the Arctic, through the Baltics, and down into heart of Asia have held the line with Russia — and what it’s like when the cold wind of war blows through this new Iron Curtain. Read BORDER LINE WAR — a collaboration with @magnumphotos — at the link in our bio today.

The New York Times’ Public Editor role was in charge of fielding hundreds of emails per week from readers, elevating complaints and criticisms to the paper itself. Margaret Sullivan, who was the fifth public editor, doesn’t buy why the paper ended up killing the role. While The Times alleged that “social media had made the role unnecessary,” Sullivan shares with @parkermolloy for DEPTH PERCEPTION, “I don’t see any relationship between that and people tweeting ‘The New York Times sucks.’ Those are just two very different things.” Read the full interview at the link in our bio. #journalism #journalist #mediacriticism #newyorktimes

The countries that make up the new Iron Curtain — bordering Russia — are attempting to shore up their borders, trying to curb Vladimir Putin’s imperial reach. Has Russia’s aggression against Ukraine spawned new alliances among its neighbors? Learn more at Long Lead and @magnumphotos ’ latest collaboration, BORDER LINE WAR, at the link in our bio. #journalism #geopolitics #russiaukraine #ironcurtain #russia

International journalist and documentarian journalist @joixlee had been living abroad prior to the Trump administration’s shift to more aggressive immigration enforcement. When considering coming back to the U.S. to report, Lee didn’t have a set plan for how she’d cover the story as a new freelancer, but she shared that “This is a time when I feel like it is important to exercise this American privilege and this American passport.” With the deployment of ICE agents to Minneapolis, Lee decided to cover the story from the ground, sharing about the collective trauma the city is facing. Read the full DEPTH PERCEPTION interview at the link in our bio. #journalism #minneapolis #reporter #operationmetrosurge

The Border Line War, Magnum’s second collaborative feature with @longlead , sees @thomasdworzak document the far-reaching resistance to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and the pressure along Russia’s borders from Norway to Kazakhstan. ⁠ ⁠ From 2023-25, Dworzak traveled thousands of miles to investigate the effects of Putin’s war in Ukraine, far from the front lines. Accompanied by foreign affairs columnist and former Moscow bureau chief Christian Caryl, he captured life in the Arctic, the Baltic region and across Asia, amidst Putin’s claim, “Wherever a Russian soldier sets foot is ours.” ⁠ ⁠ From Cold War memorial sites to protests and graffiti, Dworzak’s images trace the history of Soviet occupation and uncover renewed tensions along Russia’s borders today. ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Read the full story at the link in the @magnumphotos bio.⁠ ⁠ PHOTOS:⁠ ⁠ (1) A student group from Romania visits the Stalin Museum in the Georgian city of Gori in March, 2024. ⁠ ⁠ (2) An Independence Day military parade in the Estonian capital of Tallinn in February, 2024.⁠ ⁠ (3) Weissenregen Church overlooks the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kötzting in Germany. Cold War-era surveillance towers are also visible near the former Czechoslovakian border. January, 2024.⁠ ⁠ (4) A display at the Military History Museum in Chisinau, Moldova’s capital, honors Moldovan volunteers who assisted in containing the nuclear fallout after the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe in the former Soviet city of Pripyat in what is now Ukraine. July, 2023.⁠ ⁠ (5) Local Russians celebrate their presence in Svalbard, Norway, in March 2025. Russia has kept a foothold in the archipelago since a 1920 treaty with Norway that allowed it to conduct mining operations there. March, 2025.⁠ ⁠ (6) Finnish soldiers take part in a NATO training exercise in May, 2024. Kokkola, Finland.⁠ ⁠ (7) In the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, exiled Russians and their supporters demonstrate against Putin and the war in Ukraine as a Russian presidential election is held in March, 2024.⁠ ⁠ (8) Anti-Russian graffiti in Tbilisi in March 2024 shows the intensity of the backlash against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. ⁠ ⁠ © @thomasdworzak / Magnum Photos for Long Lead

While the Santa Anita Derby is a prestigious annual horserace held at Santa Anita Park in southern California every April, many don’t know that it once served as a temporary detention center for Japanese Americans after Executive Order 9066 during World War II. In the very same stalls that horses are kept for the races, Japanese American families were housed prior to them being sent to different incarceration camps across the country by the U.S. government following Japan’s attack at Pearl Harbor. Over two thirds of the people who were unjustly incarcerated by the U.S. government at this time were U.S. citizens. As thousands flock to the grounds for the prep race on the “Road to the Kentucky Derby,” learn more about this time in American history at Long Lead’s feature, THE AGE OF INCARCERATION. 📷: Morgan Lieberman

From Norway to Kazakhstan, a new Iron Curtain, countries feel the proximity and pressure of Russia’s existence — and its military power. Is Russia pushing its neighbors into the next World War? Check out Long Lead’s new feature BORDER LINE WAR at the link in our bio to learn more. #Russia #russiaukraine #geopolitics #photography #longformjournalism

Prolific conflict photographer @thomasdworzak has traveled thousands of kilometers to document the multi-country resistance to Russia’s imperial aims. To chronicle the impact of Putin’s war on Ukraine away from the battlefront, the @magnumphotos member began exploring the Russian border — from Norway to Kazakhstan — in 2023. Across a blast zone that extends thousands of kilometers, his camera has captured protests, performances, museums, and military trainings, all gripped by the ghost of an empire that insists it has no boundaries. With expert analysis from foreign affairs columnist Christian Caryl (@caryl.christian ), Long Lead’s latest feature BORDER LINE WAR shows how countries from the Arctic, through the Baltics, and down into the heart of Asia have held the line with Russia as Putin sets his sights on the land that the Soviet Union once controlled. Read it at the link in our bio.

In the time since Russia’s invasion on Ukraine, countries along the new Iron Curtain — from Norway to Kazakhstan — have begun shoring up their borders as the question of Putin’s next invasion looms. Check out Long Lead’s new feature BORDER LINE WAR, produced in collaboration with @magnumphotos , at the link in our bio to learn more. #russia #russiaukrainewar #geopolitics #longformjournalism #ironcurtain