National Union of Journalists of Ukraine
News Of The Week
January 23-29, 2023
The Bohodukhiv-based newspaper Mayak [Lighthouse] should have marked its 92nd birthday with a festive issue. It was ready on February 23, and it should have been printed the following day. But it saw the world that had changed only in May. But head of the newspaper, Tetiana Luchynska, did not leave her readers without news and took it upon herself to publish a front-line newspaper in the format of a combat leaflet. Thus, for a few months, the Mayak newspaper turned into a self-publisher.
According to the human rights organization Crimea SOS. Her lawyers filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding the illegal detention and conviction of civil journalist Iryna Danylovych in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Experienced journalists, advertisers, and PR specialists help future media professionals studying at the University of Customs and Finance to gain experience.
Representative of UNESCO in Ukraine Chiara Bardeschi visited the Lviv Journalist Solidarity Center on Friday and talked to journalists who were forced to leave their homes because of the war and now live in Lviv. She also met with local media persons.
The actual headquarters for the provision of humanitarian aid was deployed at the Journalists' Solidarity Center of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU). Kits of the most vital products were handed over by volunteers of the non-governmental organization Beluha. This is already the second aid tranche so necessary for forced migrants.
On February 24, Anna was woken up by a call from her mother. It was very early, at 4:50 a.m., and therefore did not portend anything good.
A total of 20 regional and print media companies have been restored in front-line territories of Ukraine thanks to the funds attracted by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) from foreign donors. This was said by Sergiy Tomilenko, the President of the NUJU, at a meeting entitled Strength of Local Media: Resuming Activity in De-occupied Territories, which took place on Monday, January 30.
The digest was prepared as part of the project entitled Support and Development of the Network of Journalists' Solidarity Centers in Ukraine to Improve Media Safety and Rights implemented by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine with the support of the International Federation of Journalists and UNESCO.
Journalists’ Solidarity Centers are an initiative of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine implemented with the support of the International and EuropeanFederations of Journalists, as well as UNESCO. The initiative is aimed at helping mediarepresentatives working in Ukraine during the war. The centers operate in Kyiv, Lviv,Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and provide journalists withorganizational, technical, legal, psychological, and other types of assistance.
