Mediagazer: Ukraine's Newest Media Company Is Ensuring the Revolution Will Be Televised (Brian Merchant/Motherboard)

9:25 AM ET, February 19, 2014

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Brian Merchant / Motherboard:

Ukraine's Newest Media Company Is Ensuring the Revolution Will Be Televised — Just behind the wall of flame, a teenager raised a smartphone to the air. Beside him, a man hurled a leg of a chair into the blaze. Hundreds of people ducked in and around, covering their heads, yelling, feeding the fire.

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

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