When we launched Sactown 100 issues ago, it’s safe to say that we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into. Join us on our trip down memory lane.
Earlier this year, journalist Martin Kuz spent five weeks in Ukraine, both as a reporter covering Russia’s invasion of his late father’s homeland and as a son hoping to better understand the forces that shaped his father’s life. He returned to Sacramento home to the largest concentration of Ukrainian immigrants in the United States with a profound new understanding of his complex heritage forged by war and loss.
Traveling from the Donbas to Lviv, our correspondent collects the tales of ordinary Ukrainians tossed about by a war that came slowly, then all at once.
Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.