Andy Markowitz

Barbara Frye

About Me

I'm a journalist and think-tank editor with decades of experience in the United States and Europe.

How I Work

I listen, I read, I learn, and I help others to do the same.

My Ethos

As a writer, I seek to be fair and to know what I'm talking about before I write. As an editor, my primary duty is to the reader. I often work with exceptional people, and I strive to leave the reader in no doubt of their meaning, skill, and expertise.

Get in Touch

fryebarbara@gmail.com

Selected Writing

openDemocracy • 9th August 2016

Could crowdfunding – yes, crowdfunding – save journalism in partly free societies?

After the Cold War, our attempts to encourage independent media in transition states didn't have the success we hoped. Could crowdfunding be part of the answer?

Transitions Online • 7th July 2015

Everybody Loves Volodya

With Putin’s approval ratings sky-high, have even his critics changed their minds – or have they just found the door?

Transitions Online • 10th April 2015

Playing the Wild Card in Belgrade

What does Serbia’s increasingly close link with Russia mean for its EU accession, or for the EU itself?

Transitions Online • 2nd March 2015

Detoxing Russia

Long after Boris Nemtsov’s killers are caught and Putin is gone, we’ll still be dealing with the legacy of the current media climate.

Transitions Online • 22nd November 2012

Death Threats and Deadlines

The perils of being a journalist in the Balkans' "quiet" country.

Tamara Areshian/flickr/Creative Commons

Transitions Online • 30th April 2009

A Distorted European Perspective

Many Armenians insist they are European, but they have a lot of work to do to make it a reality.

David Stanley/flickr/Creative Commons

Armenian genocide memorial, Yerevan

Transitions Online • 28th April 2009

Reconciliation and Recriminations

As their government makes overtures to an old foe, many Armenians still wait for an apology.

Binuri Ranasinghe/flickr/Creative Commons

Christian Science Monitor • 22nd April 2009

How governments bully newspapers

Transitions Online • 26th January 2009

Intensive Care

Making the rounds with health mediators in a Romani village: birth, death, and everything in-between.

Transitions Online • 7th September 2007

Serbia and Russia: Goodfellas

Serbia may have found a protector in Russia, but it should be prepared to pay a high price for that protection.

cindy-dam/flickr/Creative Commons

Transitions Online • 6th March 2007

Buried Treasure

While politicians and diplomats debate Kosovo's status, the impoverished province's potential remains untapped.

Timon91/flickr/Creative Commons

The Christian Science Monitor • 5th February 2007

In Kosovo, uneasy truce among neighbors

Ljubisa Vitosevic, a Serb, lost his elderly father days after the end of NATO's 1999 bombing campaign in Kosovo. Witnesses said he was led away by a group of Albanians, never to be seen again.

Washington Post • 10th December 2006

Years After War in Kosovo, Land Mines Scar Albania - washingtonpost.com

DOBRUNA, Albania -- Seven years after the Kosovo conflict ended, NATO bombs continued to explode this fall in the mountains of northern Albania.

Transitions Online • 22nd December 2004

Unquiet Flows the Danube

On the lower Danube, some Romanians are climbing aboard the tourism wagon, while others sing the Delta blues.

Transitions Online • 8th October 2004

Teaching the Holocaust in Romania

Romanian students continue to hear conflicting and ambiguous messages about the mass murder of their country's Jewish citizens.