The Guardian’s digital editor Claire Phipps reflects on a year of daily, round-the-clock reporting on Europe’s biggest war since 1945
Samantha Lock, one of the Guardian’s live bloggers in Australia, was on duty at the moment the invasion was confirmed. “It was 2pm in Sydney when the first series of missiles were launched towards Kyiv. Our reporters deftly oversaw the first few frantic hours of war, never imagining it would dominate the news agenda one year on,” she says now.
Thousands of people have chosen to support our journalism as a result. If this work is something you would be prepared to help fund, you can do so quickly and easilyBy January of this year, the Guardian’s Ukraine live blogs had seen more than 400 million page views, accounting for more than a third of all page views to Ukraine coverage since the invasion began; on many days they have been the most-read story across the Guardian. Those live blogs have run to over 3.
The live blogs are also enriched by contributions from Guardian colleagues on the ground in Ukraine, all of whom play an essential role in telling the story from where it is happening by sending blog posts, images and tweets for use in our live reporting. “A lot of the images and video footage I’ve seen from the war has stuck in my mind, but that picture of that bloody and shrapnel-wounded dog wrapped in a blanket in someone’s arms really got to me. You start questioning yourself, why am I more affected by the image of the dog rather than the people, and you immediately know that you are in a very heightened emotional state, and that makes you even more conscious of the imperative to be writing as dispassionately as possible.
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