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Today is World Press Freedom Day celebrated everywhere but in totalitarian countries. In …

neweurasia’s Schwartz publishes the next chapter rough draft for CyberChaikhana, this time focusing on media in Central Asia, and all the peaks and pitfalls that accompanies it. “It has been said that information is the lifeblood of democracies,” he writes, “but in Central Asia, information itself could use a good injection of hemoglobin.”

Recently President Karimov again mentioned about leading role of mass-media in Uzbekistan. Considering sensitivity of this issue and increasing cases of pressure on independent journalists (i.e. thos who don’t work in the official media), Uzbek …

In the third part of Musafirbek Ozod’s special post series for the CyberChaikhana project, the young blogger reflects upon his reasons and recalls a haunting encounter with an editor in which the very notion of Truth — and what it would take to be a journalist seeking after it — is exploded.

neweurasia’s Musafirbek explores the obstacles with which young journalists are faced in Uzbekistan’s media industry. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, they find themselves trapped in a self-perpetuating system undermining not only their careers, but their very ideals.

neweurasia’s Musafirbek Ozod goes beyond statistics and formal reports to write about what it’s actually like to live and work as a journalist in Uzbekistan, revealing the hellish conditions behind the headlines. This is the first part of a series, and part of the ongoing CyberChaikhana project.