The Formation of Journalistic Attentiveness
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26 May 2025
The Formation of Journalistic Attentiveness
Philips. The Wall Street Journal. Ukraine. 1994
I transcribed voices that weren’t mine.
But I was learning to hear.
1994. Second year of university.
A Philips cassette recorder, handed to me by my brother for the sake of the work.
Cassette. Pause button. Notebook. Pen.
I listened to a fragment — and wrote it down.
It wasn’t my text.
But it was my experience of attention.
This was journalism without the camera.
No interviews, no bylines, no publicity.
But my fingers were on Play.
And in my silence,
words were unfolding into meaning.
Alt-text
A university student stands at a table with a Philips cassette recorder. Her fingers rest on the “Pause” and “Play” buttons. Beside her — a notebook and a pen. The atmosphere is quiet and focused. The image symbolizes the first stage in developing journalistic attentiveness.
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Anna Pivtorak Kostyuk
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26.05.2025
