{"id":208437,"date":"2024-02-27T07:25:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T07:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/your-favourites-eurozine\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:32","slug":"your-favourites-eurozine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/your-favourites-eurozine\/","title":{"rendered":"Your favourites | Eurozine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\">\n<p>This year, the magazine turned 25 years old, and our network of cultural journals celebrated the 40th anniversary of the first European Meeting of Cultural Journals, which took place in Switzerland in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting editors and writers across the Iron Curtain was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/widening-the-context\/\">an impossible task set out back then<\/a>. The founders succeded in that, and today our network numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/journals\/\">above a hundred journals<\/a>, magazines and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/associates\/\">associates<\/a>. But now, we face new divisions in and around Europe. Still we maintain that cultural publishing is crucial to understanding and responsibly navigating any age \u2013 especially an age of chaos and rapid change, like this one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ezneyearedchoice-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ezneyearedchoice-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ezneyearedchoice-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ezneyearedchoice-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ezneyearedchoice-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ezneyearedchoice-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ezneyearedchoice-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Eurozine has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/were-bouncing-back\/\">bounced back<\/a> from the edge of collapse a number of times \u2013 our financial situation in 2022 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/ladies-with-big-boxes\/\">the lowest point<\/a> so far.\u00a0 After last year\u2019s hardship, this year saw us building back with a vengeance, and we even launched new ventures: Eurozine is among the co-founders of the brand-new Display Europe platform, and we have just introduced our new weekly talk show. You can find more about these below.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, Eurozine\u2019s operations are still far from steady: the team is stretched thin with a huge bundle of work, and our financing is not secured beyond mid-year in 2024. Our readers are growing in numbers, however, which is always a great reassurance that our work in relevant and appreciated. Please, if you can, do consider supporting Eurozine, so we can keep the network going and the magazine independent and free.<\/p>\n<p>And now, let\u2019s see the most popular articles of 2023!<\/p>\n<h2>#10<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/cities-feeling-the-heat\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1d9162ea556c08e98f9c0c32b394811d.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1aad46dedd5852a2ade5c5dba9b5fb7c.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1d9162ea556c08e98f9c0c32b394811d.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Cities feeling the heat\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>A number of alarming heat records were broken this year, across all seasons and between hemispheres. Global heating in undeniable, even if the popular discourse still takes its time to comprehend it in full. Celia Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s article came to Eurozine from our collaborator, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu\/edition\/up-in-arms-environmental-divides-reshaping-politics\/\">Green European Journal<\/a>, and it\u2019s a relevant read for every reader, regardless of the season they are enjoying right now.<\/p>\n<h2>#9<u\/><\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/the-traps-of-de-modernization\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7c62650c2bb88af07b619e35681a40a0.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/32db0fd874104fbafc8920b9907067a6.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7c62650c2bb88af07b619e35681a40a0.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: The traps of de-modernization\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jan Sowa looks at modernity nearing the end of its path, and considers what comes after:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now, as capitalism teeters on the brink of devastating our entire ecosystem and as liberal modernity splinters, we need to cast our sights beyond capitalism, towards an alternative modern vision.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a good time for nostalgia and melancholy, be it liberal or any other. If we fail to identify this new direction, the end of history we heralded 30 years ago might ominously foreshadow the end for the world, at least the world as we know it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>#8<u\/><\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/who-represents-farmers\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/522fe065314a2e0259312bf04312335c.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/a08d64682e555eeeb2d4e568509b0567.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/522fe065314a2e0259312bf04312335c.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Who represents farmers?\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Farmers are the holders of tradition, stewards of the land and the representative of small enterprise \u2013 in our political imagination. In reality, this is an agin profession, more and more dominated by big land owners, and the politicians who want their votes, are ready to exploit stereotypes to serve the interests of big business against ecology and labour:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>European farming is in dire straits. Despite agriculture being the EU\u2019s largest budget item, disbursing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/factsheets\/en\/sheet\/106\/financing-of-the-cap#:~:text=The%2520CAP%2520accounts%2520for%252033.1,above%2520%25E2%2580%2593%2520column%2520(A)%255D.\">tens of billions<\/a>\u00a0of public money a year, the bloc has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/speech_23_3264\">lost<\/a>\u00a0three million farmers over the past decade. That is a rate of 800 farmers leaving the profession every single day. Yet more concerning, they\u2019re not being replaced: the average age of a European farmer is now 57. These statistics date back to the decade from 2010 to 2020, before the war on Europe\u2019s doorstep between two agricultural superpowers put further pressure on food producers, who have since struggled with rapidly rising prices of inputs such as feed, fertiliser and pesticides.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Your favourite series in 2023<\/h2>\n<p>What will Europe look like, after \u2018the war\u2019? Well, that\u2019s an impossible question. By the end of 2023, there are seven major armed conflicts ongoing, including in Gaza, Sudan, and Ethiopia. Of all these, the Russian aggression against Ukraine is the one that most directly shapes the European Union. The series was an international hit, numbering dozens of translations and republications, and its individual articles number among the most read essays in Eurozine this year. However impossible \u2018the end of the war\u2019 is to foresee, it important to draft perspectives. And that\u2019s exactly what our <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/focal-points\/lessons-of-war\/\">Lessons of war series<\/a> <\/em>did.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/lessons-of-war\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/172e305513e404a65b7f17675fefda90.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/f1908a5addefad03c366726adc875aee.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/172e305513e404a65b7f17675fefda90.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Lessons of war\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>This debate series was curated by two of Eurozine\u2019s co-founders, Klaus Nellen and Carl Henrik Fredriksson, who set out to contrast Europe\u2019s response with the opposition to the Iraq invasion back in 2003.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/europe-after-the-death-of-peace-of-mind\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/f39641e72350d21ab0d3183d7c88b77a.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/fbc990254124c995de8fbd8e631a50f9.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/f39641e72350d21ab0d3183d7c88b77a.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Europe after the death of peace of mind\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vasyl Cherepayn refuses to normalize the war, and doesn\u2019t want to give into daydreaming about post-war reconstruction either.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 panic would actually be the appropriate reaction to Russia\u2019s war crimes \u2026 The international community seems to be gradually accepting the atrocities as inevitable, a response that would previously have been absolutely unthinkable. Panic would perhaps also be a more effective political response, potentially triggering badly needed international action \u2026<\/p>\n<p>But Europe still prefers to talk about genocide in terms of history politics, memory culture, and \u2018coming to terms with the past\u2019, often avoiding applying the term to the present for fear of its \u2018relativization\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/ukraine-europes-greatest-test\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/fb0ea1f0274b636fccb4e3ebc625dbd3.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/4d42704c1fbb3f11bc587d03d44bd566.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/fb0ea1f0274b636fccb4e3ebc625dbd3.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Ukraine: Europe\u2019s greatest test\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>An alliance forged by crises and devastation, the European Union has a chance to prove itself to a disillusioned polity. But a quick-fix approach won\u2019t cut it, Natalie Tocci argues.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/europes-second-chance\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/db35f4f6a318340a49657507df9680d1.jpeg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/a589614986a96085efbf300799fc7ef4.jpeg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/db35f4f6a318340a49657507df9680d1.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover for: Europe\u2019s second chance\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Claus Leggewie argue that for Europe to maintain political momentum, its relationship with the Global South must fundamentally change.<\/p>\n<h2>The TOP 3<\/h2>\n<section id=\"best_of\" class=\"my1 infobox infobox-og hide-desktop infobox-red\">\n<h2>Check the top of the crop from previous years<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/age-defiers\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/6a2cf12712afb92c3940d362cf0c6e0b.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/e1f675b857bcca499ee408bcfb576a3a.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/6a2cf12712afb92c3940d362cf0c6e0b.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Age defiers\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/your-choice\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/db5f6a0bcec2e1de7f86068b115dca45.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2ea498a5ddad9f2a4844ad5dda960bed.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/db5f6a0bcec2e1de7f86068b115dca45.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Your choice\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/its-your-choice\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ee10fe08403f171ead3d093de4cf001f.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/d0c38bfc44791df1df1de509101add84.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ee10fe08403f171ead3d093de4cf001f.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: It\u2019s your choice\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/our-favourites-from-2020\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/6a7869df6e5270570c8cda9cd32c9f1e.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/f963383bab9f5be10953ca8bbcf3cf7f.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/6a7869df6e5270570c8cda9cd32c9f1e.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: By popular demand\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/revolutions-and-repercussions\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0c74f3756fc8bafc386a6a82af478155.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/da8029a1c94e0b02a85b8b499b19399c.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/0c74f3756fc8bafc386a6a82af478155.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Revolutions and repercussions\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Trust is the common thread connecting our three most-read articles from 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>#3<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/the-eye-of-the-whale\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2fc12ba923224ac74366a5405598f12a.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/d1ffe6795b1fae610fe7a2ea6159ccd2.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2fc12ba923224ac74366a5405598f12a.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: The eye of the whale\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katarzyna Boni\u2019s article was shortlisted for the European Press Prize, and for good reason: it starts by introducing a personal relationship wildlife, and from it, unfolds a pathway to recognize and rethink our individual and cultural responsibilities for ecology.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have turned into spectators. The more we know, the further we move away from animals and animality. We no longer have any need to make eye contact with them. Berger argues that the gaze of a beast has become a cause for concern, even horror, in Western civilisation. After all,\u00a0<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>\u00a0is cultured, not just another type of fauna. To look into the eyes of a wild animal is to trigger a form of species-related narcissism, to prove how far we have come.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>#2<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/sleepwalkers\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/349a9e53ead9b220b425e3f995057e82.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/f0f976d2e4141adb7cee05bb23af625c.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/349a9e53ead9b220b425e3f995057e82.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Sleepwalkers\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>James Dodd writes about why war seems more and more inevitable, in a spiral of self-deception. De-escalation is always possible, he argues.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Escalation is a fundamental feature of any war, but it should not be taken to be some determining factor rigidly fixing a causal chain of events. Violence has no intrinsic logic, it dictates no necessity; this means that any given escalation of violence, as Carl von Clausewitz argued, is at its root a question of politics. We enter wars for political reasons, and we only resolve them with political means.<\/p>\n<p>Wars become more prolonged and destructive, more senseless and debilitating, the more distorted the political situation becomes \u2013 choking off possible alternatives to simply prolonging the violence, and with that giving war the deceptive air of necessity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>#1<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin:0!important;\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/whom-to-trust\/\"><picture class=\"block w100\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/f97ce7980114ecd2db3ff72d59b1ea11.jpg 272w,https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/d0a71d01b4b068c764464d3e4301860d.jpg 544w\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/f97ce7980114ecd2db3ff72d59b1ea11.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Whom to trust\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our most recent venture, the new talk show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/authors\/standard-time\/\">Standard Time<\/a> featured this conversation with two fantastic journalists and a recurring reader favourite from our authors. In this conversation, we discuss how journalism is changing in shape; how readers tend to form attachment to individual authors rather than media outlets nowadays; and whether either of the speakers want their kids to pursue media as a profession. (No, preferably not.)<\/p>\n<p>Mercy Abang is a Nigerian journalist, among the most internationally commissioned from Africa. She\u2019s the editor-in-chief of Unbiased the News, based in Berlin and curating a platform that aims to correct the imbalance of conventional media coverage. Lina Chawaf leads Radio Rozana from Gaziantep, Turkey, broadcasting in Arabic to a Syrian audience in Syrian as well as in diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>Social psychologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/authors\/peter-kreko\/\">P\u00e9ter Krek\u00f3<\/a> is a returning champion of Eurozine\u2019s top lists \u2013 he was among our most read contributors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/age-defiers\/\">in 2022<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/its-your-choice\/\">in 2021<\/a> too. This time, he shares the winning streak with distinguished colleagues \u2013 and our deeply beguiled editor-in-chief, who\u2019s beaming with joy from the fact that she gets to meet authors.<\/p>\n<h2>A new venture<\/h2>\n<p>Eurozine turned 25 years old this year, and we launched this weekly TV show a few weeks ago, in the framework of a new platform we build with more than 15 international partners: <a href=\"https:\/\/displayeurope.eu\/\">Display Europe<\/a>. This is an attempt to scale up Eurozine\u2019s work of three decades, through a new platform that offers articles, videos and audio content from dozens of media partners and across 15+ languages. Check out the platform and follow the talk show, where we will feature Eurozine authors and editors, as well as media personalities from the Display Europe platform, and from across the continent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/displayeurope.eu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kepernyokep-2023-12-27-211017.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1249\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kepernyokep-2023-12-27-211017.png 1249w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kepernyokep-2023-12-27-211017-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kepernyokep-2023-12-27-211017-1024x817.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kepernyokep-2023-12-27-211017-768x612.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1249px) 100vw, 1249px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our New Year\u2019s episode is out already: this is an unusually light-hearted one about offensive jokes and who gets to tell them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Punching sideways, comedy vs. cancel culture: Standard Time talk show - S1E6\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WhNpc2MyYjg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Through thick and thin<\/h2>\n<p>Admittedly, Eurozine has been facing financial hardship since 2021. Despite all the innovations, we are still far from steady now, as cultural funding is diminishing and our budget is not secured beyond mid-year 2024. Since the pandemic lockdowns, we\u2019ve been biting our teeth together and have maintained a forced march, to secure and to further develop Eurozine. Publishing is in a deepening turmoil, and quality is among the lesser considerations for major funders. 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