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Sezin Öney, originally from Turkey, is based in Budapest and Istanbul. She her journalism career as a foreign news reporter in 1999 and she turned into political analysis as a columnist since 2007. Her interest in her main academic subject area of populism was sparked almost decade ago; and now she focuses specifically on populist leadership, and populism in Turkey and Hungary. She studied international relations, nationalism, international law, Jewish history, comparative politics and discourse analysis across Europe.
The Best New Yorker Visual and Interactive Stories in 2017
So, another year is going past. And, a lot has happened-for better or worse. New Yorker's kaleidoscope of visual and interactive stories; "visual essays" compilation from the 2017 makes one take a time travel across the past year, as well as making one wonder about the new venues and paths the profession of journalism taking digitally.
Among the visual news stories selected by New Yorker are scientific, political, sociological and even fictional stories. So, there is something for everyone.
First of all, in our times, a small-scale Industrial Revolution is undergoing silently almost every other day, regarding scientific breakthroughs. In the “Micro-Revolutions” package, various inventions that were discovered in 2017 are introduced-did you fancy "Spidersilk", "edible drones", "artificial wombs", and as the author Monica Racic puts it "other small things with a big impact". Are they really small; one cannot help but to wonder.
On the one hand, the scientific advancements are leaping forward and on the other hand, we are facing dire straits as humanity to tackle our very fundamental political and sociological issues. Certainly, the "freedom of travel" and "right to life" should be among the foremost human rights protected. Yet, the rights of the refugees remain among the most disputed issues: shortly after President Trump announced his travel ban, New Yorker published a "visual essay" by the photographer Tomas van Houtryve, who travelled through Turkey, Greece, and France, and he followed up the “digital breadcrumbs” left by refugees on Instagram.
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While 2017 may have seemed like "rolling backwards" in many respects, "visualized side of journalism" was opening eyes to new ways of seeing.
