Seasoned Journalist Committed to Presenting Credible News

I knew what I wanted when I was a teenager. I wanted to bear witness to my world during the time within which I lived.

Journalism is a calling. It is a vocation. You become a journalist not solely as a way to support yourself but because you are drawn irrevocably to it.

I have always considered myself as a journalist for whom being the first draft of history is the priority.

I respect those who would ‘speak truth to power’. To expose the injustices and the things that lie in the shadows where the powerful exploit those without power.

But that is not me.

I wanted to see the world and witness the history of my times. I make no bones about that. But in order to do that I took on the responsibility of being as objective as I could.

But objectivity is an impossible pursuit. It is the Kagamushi effect. A wife, a thief, a merchant and a samurai have an encounter on a road. But each one’s truth is their own. That has also been my understanding of my objectivity and my responsibility.

I am here in Ukraine.

I will try to tell the truth that I see as best I can. But I do not pretend that I am not invested in a Ukrainian victory. I have been coming here since 2001. And I have seen the strength and the beauty of this place. And I have seen the trauma and resulting dysfunction. And I will not turn a blind eye to that.

But today I am standing beside Ukrainians. And I know where I stand. This land deserves its freedom.

I want to show you what I see with the skills of a professional but with the freedoms of working on my own.

I hope it will help you understand the world in which we live…because that’s my responsibility…and why I do what I do.