Rebuilding life and democracy under fire… Ukraine
This is far from a full account of what I saw and heard during an intense journey through Ukraine,...
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Category: ESSAYS
An era of change: AI, newsrooms, and the future of public trust
In the age of AI, journalism will not survive by refusing change, but by proving that responsibility, verification, and integrity can evolve with technology. The presence of AI is actually exposing whether editorial ethics existed in the first place.
By Xhabir Deralla As someone who entered journalism under a communist regime in which a journalist...
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The Phoenix of the Balkans – Kosovo’s rebirth from the ashes of war
Reflections on a vibrant Prishtina, twenty-seven years after the exodus. How Europe’s youngest democracy transformed a legacy of destruction into a thriving present, and a hope for a European future.
By Xhabir Deralla I arrived in Prishtina on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 10, to attend a...
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The sirens of “brotherhood and unity”
The long shadow of a "soft" dictatorship – Josip Broz Tito, the legacy
By Xhabir Deralla I grew up as one of Tito’s Pioneers (Titov pionir), wrapped in an ideology where...
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If it’s written in the Balkans, it is not less true
Notes from the Balkans
By Xhabir Deralla The Balkans are not behind the world. They are where the world arrives too late....
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