Covering Ukraine

This episode presents a discussion from the Kyiv Media Hub on the 16th of February, 2024. Alim Aliev, Deputy Director of the Ukrainian Institute, Kateryna Zarembo, a researcher and author on eastern Ukraine, and Anton Skyba, a journalist and photographer for foreign media, examined the challenges of reporting on Ukraine's occupied territories. They addressed issues such as dominant narratives, sustaining public interest, reporting beyond the war, limitations on journalists’ access, the  protection of sources, illegal border crossings, and the informational value of these stories. The discussion was moderated by Angelina Kariakina, journalist, editor, and co-founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab.Credits:Hosted and organised by Oksana Mamchenkova.Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook.Proofread by Michael Bird.Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback. 

This episode revisits a Kyiv Media Hub event held on the 14th of December 2023, where Ukrainian and EU journalists discussed the changing dynamics of their work. As the war continues, media coverage remains essential, yet public interest has been inconsistent. We explore how editorial priorities are shifting and what journalists can do to maintain the public’s focus on Ukraine.In this episode, you will hear:Davide Maria De Luca, an Italian journalist covering Ukraine for Domani, Il Post, and other media.Azad Safarov, a producer for the British TV channel Sky News.Rebecca Barth, a journalist from the German public broadcaster ARD.Moderation by Serhiy Stukanov, editor at Ukrainian Radio (Ukrainian Public Broadcaster).Credits:Hosted and organised by Oksana Mamchenkova.Edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba Gook.Proofread by Michael Bird.Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback. 

A few months after our study visit to Kyiv, we reached out to the participants now back in safe EU capitals to find out how they have been processing their experiences. From Sofia to Madrid, each person felt a strong contrast between their time in Ukraine and everyday life at home. Feeling the urge to stay connected with Ukraine, some have started listening to Ukrainian music on Spotify, some read the online newspaper the Kyiv Independent in the morning, and others plan to return to work in Ukraine.This episode features insights in short WhatsApp messages from the 2024 cohort of Europe-Ukraine Desk fellows: Yavor Siderov (Bulgaria), Juan López Córcoles (Spain), Vincenzo Leone (Italy), Anna Banati (Hungary), Flora-Dora Csatari (Hungary), Alienor Carriere (France), and Elena Gorgis (Germany). Credits:Conceptualised and recorded by Sarah-Lou Lepers.Written, edited, sound-designed and mixed by Daniel Bilyk.Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback.

A conversation, recorded in a shelter in Kyiv, about the experiences our fellows will take away from the study visit they participated in with the Europe-Ukraine Desk. Two of them share the emotional highs, lows and resilience they've witnessed, but also revisit discussions from the panels they attended with Ukrainian journalists, who shared their criticisms of the role of foreign media in covering the war in Ukraine. Flora-Dora Czatari is a Hungarian journalist, she worked for the weekly newspaper HvG when we recorded this interview in Kyiv, in February 2024, but since then she has moved to another role for the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. She is joined by Elena Gorgis, a freelancer for German public radio. These journalists are both fellows of the Europe-Ukraine Desk. This episode is the last of a two-part mini-series. Credits:Recorded by Sarah-Lou LepersWritten by Daniel Bilyk and Sarah-Lou LepersEdited, Sound-designed and mixed by Daniel BilykCovering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

Join our 18 fellows from Bulgaria, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Spain who discover Kyiv and Chernihiv with a study trip organised within the Europe-Ukraine Desk. They travelled to Ukraine in February 2024, two years into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. For most of them it was their first time in Ukraine, and their first time in a country at war. In this episode, we keep exploring the role of journalism in times of conflict. This episode is the first of a two-part mini series. Credits:Recorded by Sarah-Lou LepersWritten by Daniel Bilyk and Sarah-Lou LepersEdited, Sound-designed and mixed by Daniel BilykCovering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share. 

This episode features a discussion about the challenges of field reporting in Ukraine, and how the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022 and the war since 2014 have affected journalism and journalists in the country. A discussion between two of our Ukrainian fellows, Alona Savchuk, who is a journalist and reporter, and Oksana Rasulova, a freelance journalist editor who works for the Ukrainian NGO Media Initiative for Human Rights. They answered the questions from our Editorial Coordinator, while in Madrid, after a series of meetings with the most prominent EU newsrooms that our project has invited them to experience. This is the fourth and final episode of our series in which we invite you to listen to Ukrainian journalists talk about their work and the coverage of Ukraine in foreign media.Credits:Recorded by Sarah-Lou LepersWritten , edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba GookCovering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

This episode features a discussion about decolonisation of culture and journalism between two Ukrainian journalists, Darka Hirna and Bohdana Neborak, both fellows of the Europe-Ukraine Desk. This is a major topic in Ukraine, as a decolonization process is happening at the moment, which very few in western Europe know about. They answer the questions of our Editorial coordinator while in Budapest, pausing during a series of meetings with the most prominent EU newsrooms that our project has invited them to experience. This episode marks the third in a series of four, in which we invite you to listen to Ukrainian journalists talk about their work and the coverage of Ukraine in foreign media.Credits:Recorded by Sarah-Lou LepersWritten , edited, sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba GookCovering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.

This episode features a discussion between two Ukrainian journalists who both work for Suspilne, the Ukrainian public broadcaster, and happen to be fellows of the Europe-Ukraine Desk. Olena Removska is a presenter for Ukrainian National TV and Serhii Stukanov is a radio presenter for Ukrainian National Radio. They answered questions from our Editorial Coordinator in September 2023, while in Madrid, pausing during a series of meetings with the most prominent EU newsrooms that our project has invited them to experience.This episode is the second in a series of four in which we invite you to listen to Ukrainian journalists talk about their work and the coverage of Ukraine in foreign media.Credits:Recorded by Sarah-Lou LepersWritten by Lyuba GookEdited, Sound-designed and mixed by Lyuba GookCovering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.Please write to eud@n-ost.org if you have any questions or feedback to share.