![]() In the channel’s first two days, before it was even officially announced, 1,500 users subscribed. “It was one of the fastest-moving ideas I’ve seen in 10 years at The Times,” Ms. Often, the content is pulled from The Times’s live blog on the war. Goel got the idea, it took just one week for The Times to post for the first time on a Telegram channel that delivers reporting, eyewitness accounts, interviews and breaking news about the war in Ukraine to users around the world. Goel said it was imperative that The Times participate in one of the only platforms still widely accessible.Īfter Mr. With Russians receiving censored news and Ukrainians under attack or fleeing the country, Mr. But critics say there are far more pressing needs. Restoring a Giant Plane : Ukraine plans to rebuild the colossal Mriya cargo plane, a symbol of pride that was destroyed in the first days of the war.Refusing to Leave Home: In the battered town of Avdiivka, as in Bakhmut and other devastated places on the front lines in Ukraine, most residents left long ago, but there are holdouts.Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant : The former director of the facility provided a harrowing account of abuse of Ukrainian workers and careless practices by the Russians who took control of the plant.“We realized that a large chunk of the audience who would be most interested in accurate information about the war is on Telegram, and we weren’t there.” “We want to be where the audience is,” Mr. Everyone wanted to figure out how to get it done. Within minutes, emails were flying back and forth. ![]() He copied his boss his boss’s boss Michael Slackman, the assistant managing editor for International and Snigdha Koirala, an international deputy editor. To continue delivering the news to readers overseas, he wrote, The Times should start a channel on the fast-growing messaging service Telegram. Goel began pondering the question: If our website is blocked in Russia, how can we get our news and information to people who need it?įrom his home in California, Mr. Russia had already taken steps to ban or restrict Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It had been over a week since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, and several Western news organizations had already suspended their operations in Russia in the wake of a crackdown on media and free speech by the country’s president, Vladimir V. Late on the first Friday night in March, Vindu Goel, an audience editor for The New York Times, sent an email to his colleagues with the subject line: “If gets blocked in Russia … ” Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.
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