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Editor’s note: Former Chronicle foreign correspondent Max Frost is still doing international journalism, but now it’s for RocaNews, the Internet news organization he founded with two partners in August 2020. In January Max and Roca writer Alex Norris spent 2.5 weeks in Ethiopia. They’re back in the U.S. now, but Max is writing daily reports of the trip in the RocaNews letter. It’s free. Go to rocanews.com to sign up. …

By Max Frost, Rocanews.com

Editor’s note: Max Frost, the son of Chronicle owners Mark Frost and Sandra Hutchinson and brother of Chronicle Chief Operating Officer Zander Frost, is co-founder and COO of Rocanews, an Internet firm based in New York City that Max and two partners co-founded and operate. It has 1.2-million Instagram followers, a daily emailed newsletter and more.

Necoclí, Colombia, is the final town on the South …

By Max Frost, Rocanews.com, Chronicle Foreign Correspondent

Last July, my last stop in eastern Ukraine was Mariupol, a city on the Azov Sea that had been occupied by the separatists for 2 months in 2014.

Getting there took a 7-hour bus ride, parts of which were within 9 miles (15 km) of the ceasefire line. Some of the towns we passed through are at constant risk of being caught in …

Chronicle editor Mark Frost writes: Our son Max — reporting for RocaNews.com, the digital news company he founded with two friends in 2020 — crossed the border from Poland into Ukraine on March 4, hitchhiking with a driver transporting relief supplies. The man invited Max to stay in his three-generation household as long as Max wanted. Max stayed three nights, four days.

After the third day, Max Facetimed with us. …

Editor’s note: Max Frost, son of Chronicle owners Mark Frost and Sandra Hutchinson and brother of The Chronicle’s Zander Frost, is President and Chief Operating Officer of RocaNews.com, a media start-up in New York City. Tuesday, RocaNews published the following article.

It began: Last July, RocaNews sent its co-founder & editor Max Frost to explore Ukraine and meet the people impacted by the war that has been simmering there since …