The stipends for Ukrainian media and journalists: Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL) and European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) launch a new phase of the Stipends support project
We research, create and popularise best practices for public interest journalism in the digital age.
We believe in high-quality journalism. The Lab team is aimed at creating content that promoted constructive discussion around complex social topics. In our work, we use interdisciplinarity e. g. cooperation with sociologists and analysts. We test different types of content, analyze audiences' feedback, research public opinion and conduct media monitoring.
Discussion: "Big Water". To the anniversary of the explosion at the Kakhovska HPP"
The documentary project “Big Water” was created to mark the anniversary of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam explosion. Its destruction is being investigated by the largest investigative team in Ukraine. To prove the Russian crime against the environment, state environmental service employees collect soil and water samples daily. Sometimes, they need to work near the river, within range of Russian snipers from the occupied left bank. Ecologists work under shelling in a building damaged by an air bomb. PJIL research is conducted there. This film is about how to investigate a crime when you are a victim yourself and when the full scale of the disaster's consequences will become clear only after years.
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Among our products there are qualitative research, media strategies, documentaries, multimedia content, trainings, etc. Since the February 24 Russian invasion, PIJL has pivoted to frontline reporting for international and Ukrainian media. Our current work also includes documenting Russian crimes in Ukraine within The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies as well as compiling a modern chronicle of Ukraine’s history called “Life in War”.
Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL) was founded in 2020 by Ukrainian journalists Nataliya Gumenyuk and Angelina Kariakina together with activists and communication experts Tata Peklun and Inna Nelles. A pilot research by PIJL was aimed at developing editorial and information strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NATALIYA GUMENYUK,
FOREIGN POLICY
Inside Ukraine’s Fight for Hearts and Minds
PUBLICATIONS OF LAB JOURNALISTS
ORF TOPOS
Umweltschutz unter Lebensgefahr
Vertreter lokaler Behörden und der UNO sowie von NGOs und Teams von Investigativjournalistinnen und -journalisten untersuchen die Folgen der Sprengung des Kachowka-Staudammes vor über einem Jahr im ukrainischen Cherson. Aus strafrechtlichen Gründen, und weil es gilt, die richtigen Maßnahmen zu setzen. Erste Ergebnisse lassen eine Umweltkatastrophe vermuten. Die Arbeit der Ermittler ist lebensgefährlich. Das Reckoning Project, eine ukrainische Redaktion als Kooperationspartner von ORF Topos, hat an Ort und Stelle recherchiert.
GHANNA MAMONOVA, ANGELINA KARIAKINA
Doctors in Kyiv: Shielding children from Russian missile fragments
ANGELINA KARIAKINA,
BANGKOK POST
Ukraine hospitals are targets of war
'I'm not hurt! I'm alive!" I hear my father's agitated voice over the phone. The day is July 8, when 38 Russian missiles attacked Ukraine. Several of them hit Kyiv residential areas.
NATALIYA GUMENYUK,
THE GUARDIAN
Will there be elections? Is it OK to throw parties? War unity hasn’t stopped heated political debate in Ukraine
There are many topics up for healthy debate at the moment — yet we remain united against the Russian enemy
GHANNA MAMONOVA,
NEW LINES MAGAZINE
Ukrainian Ecologists Document What They Say Is Russian Ecocide
Prosecutors, ecologists and scientists are investigating Moscow's attack on the Kakhovka Dam.