La salvezza dell'Ucraina è impossibile senza la salvezza dei media ucraini
Thu 18 April 2024
10:00
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In the second year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, international and Ukrainian experts, as well as the entire media community, still perceive the media as a means to inform society about recovery, without realizing that within a year or two viable media will no longer exist and there will be no one to inform society on its real agenda. The damage to the Ukrainian media market from the war is not limited to destruction from missile strikes and occupation. Even in regions far from the frontline, or in thematic niches on a nationwide level, the media sector is at risk of turning into news deserts where all-Ukrainian journalism will be reduced to a continuous joint telethon.
In 2023, the NGO Lviv Media Forum initiated a study to identify and assess the donor market financing Ukrainian media, along with investigating the types of media entities most likely to secure funding from international donors. This research provides constructive and revealing insights into the reasons for such a tendency in the sector. Therefore, the purpose of the panel discussion is to advocate for considering the preservation and restoration of quality, viable Ukrainian media as an integral part of preserving and restoring Ukraine. Moderated by Zoya Krasovska.
Organised in association with Lviv Media Forum.
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Zoya Krasovska
Zoya Krasovska is a media analyst working for NGOs Lviv Media Forum and Women in Media, as well as for the international training programme Media Development in a Democratic Framework as a National Facilitator in Ukraine. With a background in journalism and 15 years of experience in media, her main focus is on researching the media landscape, conducting content analysis, and strengthening media literacy. Zoya has been involved in researching on countering Russian propaganda narratives about Ukraine in Western media, assessing the needs of Ukrainian local media during wartime, producing content to counter disinformation for Ukrainian media outlets, and addressing the situation of women journalists and other women media workers in Ukraine.
Joanna Krawczyk
Joanna Krawczyk is a senior executive with over 15 years of experience in NGO and media development and philanthropy in the EU. She is the Deputy Managing Director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States East, a leading security, geopolitical and civil society intelligence platform which focuses on political and security transformation in CEE, rebuilding and reconstruction of Ukraine in the framework of the GMF’s Modern Marshall Plan. She manages the Ukrainian Media Fund, an international initiative to support local media in Ukraine in times of war and in reconstruction period. Joanna is an Obama Leader, a Member of the Managing Board of European Media and Information Fund, sits in the Advisory Board of Journalismfund.eu and recently became a Member of the Advisory Board of the Allianz Foundation's Risktakers project. Prior to this, Joanna was the Head of News Partnerships in the Polish biggest legacy newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and the initiator and President of Gazeta Wybo...
Lera Lauda
Lera Lauda is head of the Ukrainian Local Media Development Agency ABO (Kyiv, Ukraine). The mission of her organization is to relaunch the local and niche media market by digitizing it, raising the professional level of journalists, and optimizing the business models. ABO has launched and is developing 60 media outlets in small and medium-sized towns across Ukraine with a total monthly audience of over 3.6 million users. Also, the organization is actively developing its own seven thematic media outlets, including: media for Ukrainians who have evacuated abroad; a project that documents the stories of Ukrainians whose homes and businesses were destroyed due to the war; the Memorial platform, which verifies and shares stories about civilians and military personnel whose lives were affected by Russia's war against Ukraine. This platform also disseminates information to international human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Every Casualty Counts. All of these media ou...
Olga Myrovych
Olga Myrovych is a Ukraine-based media expert and a non-profit sector consultant. Olga has more than 10-year experience in media development projects. She has worked as the Head of projects at the Centre for Media Excellence at the School of Journalism of the Ukrainian Catholic University (2013-2018), as well as Lviv Media Forum Development Director (2018-2021) and the Head (2021 - present). Olga provides expertise on the Ukrainian media market to multiple international organizations and donor foundations.