I am starting to cooperate with the English version of Delfi, the largest news portal in Lithuania, – The Lithuania Tribune. Here I will paste links to my articles to keep them in one place. December 2015 Creativity and boredom in a Lithuanian town coping with globalisation (reporting on increasingly diverse student recruitment and youth unemployment in Alytus) Hanukkah in …
Reporting on minorities in Thailand as EU13 journalist
@daiva_hadiva With the aim to balance out very unequal distribution of articles about development cooperation between EU15 and EU13, Minority Rights Group took our group of ten to get first-hand experience reporting in Southeast Asia. What we learned, however, had to do more with our journalistic methods than with EU development aid and cooperation. February marked the tenth year since …
Writing about press freedom in Thailand
The Equal Times published my article on press freedom in Thailand (also available in French and Spanish). “I tell other colleagues, ‘Hey, you are a journalist. You should be brave!’” says Chutima Sidasathian, whom I had a chance to meet thanks to Minority Rights Group, the organizers of a training I attended in Bangkok and Kaeng Krachan national park. There …
Media freedom in Hungary – my latest for Equal Times
I interviewed journalists, journalist unions, read the Government Control Office website and a bunch of documents for this article: Independent journalism under increasing threat in Hungary – Equal Times.
Article about Budapest Pride
It is always interesting to compare events. Last year the Baltic Pride, the annual march for LGBT rights, held in the Baltic capitals on a rotating basis, aroused many discussions in Lithuania, but when it takes place in the other Baltic capitals, we usually only see a photo or two. This year I had a chance to report from a …
A bit about my 20s
I rarely post personal photos and stories online these days, but it’s fun to think about the end of my 20s, which were an era in itself, and to look back at all the different memories. As someone said, the best thing about being in your 30s now is that all your craziest experiences happened in the pre-Facebook era. So …
Summaries of my selected articles in Lithuanian
Since summer 2013 the website of Atgimimas weekly, where I worked from 2005 to 2011, is down. For this reason many of the links do not work. I will look for possibilities to retrieve my articles from the archives of the weekly.
My work for Cafe Babel
I am an active reporter and blogger for Cafe Babel, a multilingual European youth online magazine, since 2008. My profile with all articles and blog entries is here. You can follow my work on Twitter and Facebook. I was the leader of Babel Lietuva, Cafe Babel’s Lithuanian branch, from 2011 to 2012. In 2010 and 2011 we hosted teams of …
My work for Equal Times
I started working as the Baltic correspondent for Equal Times in January 2013. Equal Times is a global news, opinion and campaign website about work, politics, the economy, development and the environment (Facebook, Twitter). My articles published: Independent journalism under increasing threat in Hungary — In Depth Baltic Pride: united activists, divided politicians — News Latvia’s euro ambitions undeterred by Cyprus …
Anti-violence protection – an issue confined to bedroom and shower?
[The original of this article was published in Delfi. It was translated for public procurement purposes. All rights belong to Delfi.] Half-truth is worse than an open lie. Unfortunately, it is namely the half-truths that are used to juxtapose the Council of Europe Convention on preventing violence against women, family violence prevention and combat, with the widely-discussed Gender Loops programme …