The journalist who became a pawn in Putin’s game
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As a kid in the early 2000s, I joined a scrappy new video site called YouTube. We were girls creating content for other girls. But with our growing success came new rules from the man in charge. There was no reason to believe that anything dangerous was going on. No reason until he was taken away in handcuffs.
I'm Lauren White, and from CBC's split screen, this is There Goes My Childhood. Available now on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC Podcast. It's the spring of twenty twenty three. A young American journalist is based in Moscow, doing his job.
Reporting from Putin's Russia. He's working on a story related to the war with Ukraine. In a central Russian city. He is handed some documents by a trusted source that And almost instantly.
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