John Daniszewski
@jdaniszewski.bsky.social
Longtime vice president and editor for standards and practices at the Associated Press, former international correspondent and international editor. Advocate for press freedoms and journalist safety.
This is an important initiative. Thank you to Bard, PEN America and my wife, Dru Menaker, for helping make it reality. As governments try to kill independent media, Kronika will keep their seeds alive for the future.
A new digital platform is being established to preserve the archives of news outlets that have been shut down or are facing extinction in authoritarian countries. The platform, a joint project of PEN America and Bard College, is called Kronika apnews.com/article/cens...
Digital platform aims to preserve journalism from outlets closed or threatened
PEN America and Bard College have started a digital platform, Kronika, designed to preserve the journalism of independent news outlets that have been closed or threatened by authoritarian governments.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is an important initiative. Thank you to Bard, PEN America and my wife, Dru Menaker, for helping make it reality. As governments try to kill independent media, Kronika will keep their seeds alive for the future.
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A new digital platform is being established to preserve the archives of news outlets that have been shut down or are facing extinction in authoritarian countries. The platform, a joint project of PEN America and Bard College, is called Kronika apnews.com/article/cens...
Digital platform aims to preserve journalism from outlets closed or threatened
PEN America and Bard College have started a digital platform, Kronika, designed to preserve the journalism of independent news outlets that have been closed or threatened by authoritarian governments.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A new digital platform is being established to preserve the archives of news outlets that have been shut down or are facing extinction in authoritarian countries. The platform, a joint project of PEN America and Bard College, is called Kronika apnews.com/article/cens...
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Congratulations to the great David McCraw on winning CPJ's Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. Can't think of anyone doing more today to defend the First Amendment. Read his eloquent speech here on the need for an independent media: www.nytco.com/press/david-...
David McCraw Honored with CPJ’s Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award | The New York Times Company
“I want to thank CPJ for this honor. Over the course of my career, I have had the good fortune to do pro bono projects promoting press freedom in various places around the world…
www.nytco.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Congratulations to the great David McCraw on winning CPJ's Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. Can't think of anyone doing more today to defend the First Amendment. Read his eloquent speech here on the need for an independent media: www.nytco.com/press/david-...
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Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland
Excellent idea
We are delighted to announce the start of our partnership with the EFC Foundation, a Polish NGO devoted to strengthening civic education in Poland and Central Europe, and which is now supporting the work of Notes from Poland.
To learn more about EFC, please go to: efc.edu.pl/en/
To learn more about EFC, please go to: efc.edu.pl/en/
October 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Excellent idea
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Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...
Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero
The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...
kyivindependent.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...
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More than 100 writers, journalists, and scholars call for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist detained in the U.S. today for doing his job—and now facing imminent deportation. Share the letter and join the call to #FreeMario: pen.org/press-releas...
September 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
More than 100 writers, journalists, and scholars call for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist detained in the U.S. today for doing his job—and now facing imminent deportation. Share the letter and join the call to #FreeMario: pen.org/press-releas...
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The Enduring Welcome Act + the Afghan Adjustment Act = end-to-end protection.
AAA: permanence for Afghans already here
EWA: restores relocation for those still abroad
Together, they keep America’s promise.
Learn more and endorse the bill:
🔗 AfghanEvac.org/enduring-welcome-act
AAA: permanence for Afghans already here
EWA: restores relocation for those still abroad
Together, they keep America’s promise.
Learn more and endorse the bill:
🔗 AfghanEvac.org/enduring-welcome-act
Enduring Welcome Act — #AfghanEvac
AfghanEvac.org
August 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Enduring Welcome Act + the Afghan Adjustment Act = end-to-end protection.
AAA: permanence for Afghans already here
EWA: restores relocation for those still abroad
Together, they keep America’s promise.
Learn more and endorse the bill:
🔗 AfghanEvac.org/enduring-welcome-act
AAA: permanence for Afghans already here
EWA: restores relocation for those still abroad
Together, they keep America’s promise.
Learn more and endorse the bill:
🔗 AfghanEvac.org/enduring-welcome-act
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The archbishop of Łódź has condemned recent “hate and fear” expressed towards refugees and migrants in Poland.
"Catholic teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose a place to live and to be respected in that place for their beliefs and culture."
"Catholic teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose a place to live and to be respected in that place for their beliefs and culture."
Polish archbishop condemns "fear and hate" of migrants as unchristian
notesfrompoland.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The archbishop of Łódź has condemned recent “hate and fear” expressed towards refugees and migrants in Poland.
"Catholic teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose a place to live and to be respected in that place for their beliefs and culture."
"Catholic teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose a place to live and to be respected in that place for their beliefs and culture."
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Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets. Every election is now existential
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Every Election Is Now Existential
A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.
www.theatlantic.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets. Every election is now existential
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The BBC will launch a Polish-language news website next month.
It says BBC News Polska will “deliver independent and impartial news” and “help counter a wave of disinformation in the region”.
It says BBC News Polska will “deliver independent and impartial news” and “help counter a wave of disinformation in the region”.
BBC to launch Polish-language news service
notesfrompoland.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The BBC will launch a Polish-language news website next month.
It says BBC News Polska will “deliver independent and impartial news” and “help counter a wave of disinformation in the region”.
It says BBC News Polska will “deliver independent and impartial news” and “help counter a wave of disinformation in the region”.
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“For anyone who thinks the Associated Press’s lawsuit against President Trump’s White House is about the name of a body of water, think bigger. It’s really about whether the government can control what you say.” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The AP’s Freedom of Speech—and Yours
A brazen attempt to punish us for using words Trump dislikes.
www.wsj.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“For anyone who thinks the Associated Press’s lawsuit against President Trump’s White House is about the name of a body of water, think bigger. It’s really about whether the government can control what you say.” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email:
"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
March 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email:
"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
"Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
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‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist
‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist
Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil a ‘targeted, retaliatory’ attack on his first amendment rights, say civil rights groups
Free speech organizations and advocates are expressing outrage after a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s…
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist
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Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques
Wałęsa condemns Trump treatment of Zelensky, likening it to communist interrogation
notesfrompoland.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.
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I stand with Ukraine. Every decent person should. It’s not just a strategic interest. It’s a moral imperative.
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I stand with Ukraine. Every decent person should. It’s not just a strategic interest. It’s a moral imperative.
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦
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“She asked too many questions that the president didn’t like. She reported too much about criticism of his administration. And so, before long, Yelena Tregubova was pushed out of the Kremlin press pool that covered President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold
A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
“She asked too many questions that the president didn’t like. She reported too much about criticism of his administration. And so, before long, Yelena Tregubova was pushed out of the Kremlin press pool that covered President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump."
Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
February 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump."
Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...