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Richard Pendry

@richardpendry.bsky.social
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Film maker. Journalist. Programme maker, including longform radio and podcasts. Ukraine/Russia. Host, War Tribe podcast. Recovering academic. Familiar with video ethnography.

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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Listen to Wendy Smith Trauma Guru on @rss.com rss.com/podcasts/war...
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Wendy Smith Trauma Guru | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Wendy Smith’s story begins with a violent rupture: a motorbike crash that left her with a spinal injury and eight months in hospital, told she might never walk again. She ignored it. Walking out on cr...
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Listen to Peter Jouvenal Afghanistan Cameraman on @rss.com rss.com/podcasts/war...
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Peter Jouvenal Afghanistan Cameraman | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
My former colleague at Frontline News, combat cameraman Peter Jouvenal talks about the importance of the personal touch in finding stories.Peter shares how he made BBC correspondent John Simpson's fam...
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Listen to Dmytro Horyevoy Ukraine Fixer and Local Producer on @rss.com rss.com/podcasts/war... Dmytro reflects on the personal qualities he believes truly matter in a correspondent. #news #fixing #ukraine #journalism #war #reporting #podcast
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Dmytro Horyevoy Ukraine Fixer and Local Producer | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
For the final episode of Season One of WAR TRIBE, Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Horyevoy wakes after a night spent sheltering in his basement during a Russian bombardment.From that vantage point, he ref...
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
How do you freelance in a war zone? In this episode of the War Tribe podcast, I speak to journalist and author Jen Stout about reporting from Ukraine without the backing of a major organisation — and what that really involves on the ground. open.spotify.com/episode/3Lc9...
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Jen Stout Ukraine Freelance
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
In the latest episode of the War Tribe podcast, we meet Eliot Higgins, the founder of the citizen journalist collective Bellingcat. Eliot works with more traditional war reporters to investigate what really happened in high profile cases where the truth is disputed. rss.com/podcasts/war...
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Eliot Higgins Bellingcat | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
In this episode of War Tribe, we meet Eliot Higgins, the founder of the citizen journalist collective Bellingcat. He has changed the way conflict reporting is done in recent years. Eliot works with mo...
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Listen to John Simpson BBC correspondent on @rss.com rss.com/podcasts/war...
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John Simpson BBC correspondent | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
For years now, BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson can't help seeing his young son in his mind's eye, as he reports on families suffering in war zones. Simpson says he's gloomy about journalism's fu...
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Not long before he died, photographer Paul Conroy sat down for a long, reflective interview. It’s the opening episodes of War Tribe — a new podcast I’ve launched exploring the people behind conflict reporting: not just the big names, but the wider tribe. rss.com/podcasts/war...
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Paul Conroy Photographer Part 1 | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
The first two episodes feature an interview with the photographer Paul Conroy who has died, at home with family in Devon, of a heart attack.We thought it was important to put out this out as an extend...
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I'm on this BBC Ukrainecast Podcast today at 1717, talking about going out with Ukrainian army patrols rounding up unwilling recruits, and what it's like to accompany the soldier with the worst job in the Ukrainian army www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #ukrainecast #bbc #Ukraine #news #journalism
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BBC News - Ukrainecast, After Gaza, is Trump turning his attention to Ukraine?
US President Donald Trump is due to meet Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
In Ukraine, the army's recruitment office also brings soldiers home when they are killed. Listen to my powerful, disturbing story about the man with the worst job in the Ukrainian army which led this morning's BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002kpwp
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From Our Own Correspondent - Ukraine's death messenger - BBC Sounds
The soldier with the unenviable task of telling families their loved ones have been killed
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Cold pickled camel’s stomach in Kazakhstan, oh and warm vodka! Easily the most difficult thing to get down ever. As horrific as it sounds
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
‘What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space.’ Marina Hyde feels the love and gets right to it
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
True
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 11/04/2025
Memes aren’t just visual jokes. They’re containers for meaning. When used intentionally, they build counter-narratives—challenging propaganda by offering different values, identities, and visions of reality. #NarrativeWarfare #MemeticWarfare #DigitalPsychology
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Love this
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Nothing that happened today contradicts this analysis
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Anne Applebaum on Substack
Reminding again
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
‘“Maybe burn him alive on the street, spray him with some super-strong acid, VX, like the North Koreans, or the ricin,” Marsalek said. “Shower accident won’t discourage others. It must create a dramatic story.”’ More on signalling and assassinations? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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‘Burn him alive on the street’: the Russian journalist targeted in UK by spy ring
Old Bailey trial of six Bulgarians charged with espionage has provided chilling evidence that Kremlin wanted reporter to be killed
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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In the aftermath of 9/11, Ukraine, a non-NATO ally, sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq—not because we had to, but because we stood with our US partners and allies in a moment of need. There was no question.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
These were guys having quite different conversations in so many aspects. Talking past each other and all under tremendous pressure.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Again, general mystification in the room to all but Russian speakers who understood it was another Russian loan word and he was referring to the Oval Office.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Elsewhere in the argument with Vance he started talking about being thankful when he came to the ‘cabinet’.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
One also gets a glimpse into how difficult it also is for Zelensky to deal with tricky questions not in his first language. He replies he’s going to get a ‘costume’ when the war is over, a word lifted from his first language which is Russian.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
No doubt the Trumpland hordes and the algorithms went absolutely berserk. This is what we are living in now. It’s amazing.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Sadly, made to walk into a room and negotiate in front of the cameras, Zelensky fell for it.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Trump, Vance, and just out of sight Musk all getting angrier and angrier for the sake of the algorithms’ engagement.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Actually Zelensky was correct to say Trump is living in a disinformation space. What happened yesterday in the White House was the horrible real life outcome of all these Alpha male idiots who have radicalised themselves online and Maga-land.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
From Trump’s point of view, him and Putin are in it together. And he probably thinks he’s come to this conclusion all by himself. Which is the saddest part.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Trump sees himself and Putin as joint victims of the Democrat/legacy media stitch up over his first impeachment and aid to Ukraine.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
And what Trump and Putin probably talked about at previous summits in private.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
One gets a glimpse of how Trump sees this dysfunctional three-way situationship these three men are in.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The most revealing quote from the Oval Office meltdown yesterday? Trump’s ‘Putin went through a hell of a lot with me.’
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a man in a blue shirt says thread here in a video
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says thread here in a video
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I wonder how Zelensky feels this morning
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
as talk of a negotiated end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict proceeds enterprising reporters should remember that one concession Russia should be forced to make is returning the people it's kidnapped newrepublic.com/article/1693...
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Victory Is the Only Way to Bring Ukraine’s Kidnapped People Home
Officials from the war-torn nation estimate that as many as 2.8 million residents have been forcibly relocated to Russia since the invasion began.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Some understandably upset and angry Ukrainians on this episode of Ukrainecast www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Ukrainecast - How are Ukrainians reacting to Trump’s peace talk plans? - BBC Sounds
The country comes to terms with the US president’s negotiations announcement
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Russia's long running disinformation campaign on X is pumping out videos making all sorts of allegations about USAID, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr, already resharing one of the video to millions of people, because they're too dumb to spot a disinfo op.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Absolutely! If it didn’t break any rules that rather suggests the rules are rubbish and we need to get better ones
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Cool open source tools for journalists and other nosey people! Nice work
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Fair
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Very good and long overdue idea! Open source investigations have revolutionised journalism and universities need to teach these skills
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 16/01/2025
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire, subject to Israeli cabinet approval. At Bellingcat we've covered the 15-month conflict by sharing resources for monitoring land change as well as producing our own, in-depth investigations. Find our coverage here: www.bellingcat.com?s=gaza
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You searched for gaza - bellingcat
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I don’t see how anyone could resist reading further
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 09/01/2025
Geography matters. On the correlation between distance to Moscow and defence spending/aid to Ukraine. Great charts by @economist.com Europe could be torn apart by new divisions econ.st/4fQq6iL
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 08/01/2025
Newspapers should fire their editors and fact checkers and just crowdsource the work to the comments section. This is a good plan and will democratize the news industry. If no one comments on this post, it means everyone who saw it agrees.
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Richard Pendry @richardpendry.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
AI is the the best journalistic source ever. Just ask a searching question and it immediately spills its guts
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Israeli forces killed Palestinian journalist Omar al-Dirawi and his parents in a strike on their home in central Gaza today. He is the 202nd journalist killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since October 2023, according to Palestinian government data.
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Israeli strike kills Palestinian journalist alongside his parents in central Gaza
Omar al-Dirawi's killing brings the journalist death toll in Gaza to 202, according to local authorities
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:
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