Lindsey Johnstone

ARTE •

A European Perspective (Arte/EBU)

As part of my digital editor role at Arte, I was the editor of the European Recommendation Box – an EBU-led, AI-based news-sharing project in partnership with public service broadcasters from across Europe, in which I selected and edited Arte content to share with partner broadcasters according to the day's news agenda and the editorial ideals of the project, as well as selecting content from these partners to share on the Arte site, as seen here, and in the French and German versions of the boxes.
Euronews.com •

Watch: Parade puts blackface in Belgium back in spotlight

Blackface makeup is back in the spotlight in Belgium, as anti-racism campaigners have criticised a folk festival held on Sunday in the Wallonian city of Ath for featuring a character called "the Savage" (le Sauvage). The character, played by a white actor in blackface makeup, is paraded through the town in chains, screaming and scaring children, before being shackled to a float made to look like a boat manned by sailors.
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European election 2019: What happened this week?

With the EU heading to the polls from tomorrow, here's what's been happening in the final days of campaigning. Fake news has been hard at work, according to NGO Avaaz. Tens of thousands of Europeans protested far-right politics, while others attended a nationalist rally in Milan. Meanwhile, we headed to the Democracy Alive festival to quiz Commission presidential candidates, and to Brussels to peek inside the Parliament.
Euronews.com •

European Elections: What happened this week?

This time next week voting will be underway for the European elections – in some member states anyway. But where do the polls open first? And last? And farthest away from the Brussels bubble? What is the "powerful substance" that could sway results in Romania? And what is former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis up to in Germany? The answers to all these questions and more can be found in this week's round-up...
Euronews.com •

European elections 2019: What happened this week?

Welcome to our weekly round-up of EU elections coverage. With two weeks until voters go to the polls, we'll tell you all you need to know about how the elections work and the role of the parliament, as well as sharing the latest stories. The home straight has been handily soudtracked by Spotify, who have released a political playlist, plus we hear from an activist who argues that Muslims feel dangerously excluded from EU politics.
Euronews.com •

European Elections 2019: What happened this week?

Welcome to our weekly round-up of EU elections coverage. With six weeks until voters go to the polls, we'll tell you all you need to know about how the elections work and the role of the parliament, as well as sharing the latest stories. This week we take a look at some of those running for election, including a former tennis world No.1 and a great-grandson with a formidable political lineage, and examine a poll that shows an upward trend for both the parliament's largest groups.
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Terror fears as gunman kills two female cops and a passerby in Belgian shooting

With this breaking story I used French-language Belgian news reports to continually update the story in real time, given that these were coming out much faster than English-language reports. This involved monitoring video and written reports across Belgian media, verifying sources of French-language reports on social media, amalgamating these various reports and translating the content into English in order to write up the story and edit and publish it, with multimedia content, under time pressure to publish at speed without losing accuracy.
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