Mark Deuze is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In light of current events, he initiated a series of Zoom interviews with Ukrainian (and East European) journalists working in Ukraine. Below you can find the first two interviews. Or you can watch them on Mark Deuze’s YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrAM_FOAyARuhku_HHVRFgQ.
Conversation with GWARA Media in Ukraine
4 April 2022
This vlog features the team of Ukrainian media organization Gwara Media, based in Kharkiv and Kyiv. Joining Mark in conversation are Serhii Prokopenko (CEO and coordinating editor) and Yaroslav Ustich (creative producer) from Kharkiv, Olena Migashko (editor in chief) in Kyiv, and journalist Dasha Kotelnikova calling in from Italy. In the interview, Serhii, Yaroslav, Olena and Dasha talk frankly about their experience of the on-going war (since 2014, when Russian forces annexed and occupied Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts) and the Russian invasion of February 2022, the work that they continue to do to tell the story of Ukraine, spread news, and support the creative industries of their country, how they are helping (and protecting) foreign journalists who come in to cover the war, and what people can do to help. Their disinformation-auditing bot Perevirka: https://gwaramedia.com/en/perevirka-d…
More information about Gwara media and how you can help: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m…
Gwara Media homepage (in English): https://gwaramedia.com/en/
War diaries of Gwara Media for Eurozine: https://www.eurozine.com/war-diaries/
An example of Gwara’s work with French journalists is this report for France24: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20…
A video Serhii shot (on April 3, 2022) while reporting on Russian bombings of rural areas outside of Kharkiv (also featured in the video interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkdyE…
Conversation with Outriders in Ukraine
10 April 2022
Mark Deuze goes into conversation with Jakub Górnicki, CEO and co-founder of Polish journalism network Outriders. Jakub (and some of his fellow Outriders) have been reporting out of Ukraine (Kyiv, Odessa, and Lviv) since February 19, 2022. In this interview Jakub – calling in from Kyiv – talks openly about managing his work, keep in touch with and visiting his family back in Warsaw, supporting journalists in Ukraine through the Outriders network, and his #LOVESPEECH initiative to counter hate online.
More information about Outriders: https://outride.rs/en/about-us/
Support Outriders: http://support.outride.rs/
Donation to the IFJ/EFJ Safety Fund for Journalists in Ukraine https://donorbox.org/donation-to-the-…
Support the Media Lifeline Ukraine hosted by Free Press Unlimited: https://www.freepressunlimited.org/en…