Covering Ukraine

Oct 25 2024 16 ep. 30 mins 18
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Covering Ukraine is a podcast about Journalism in Ukraine.

How do journalists work in Ukraine today? How do foreign journalists look at Ukraine? How do Ukrainian journalists work, and how do they look at the work of international colleagues? 

Covering Ukraine is a podcast produced by The Europe-Ukraine Desk, a project by n-ost and funded by the European Commission.

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10 Years of War: How to Discuss the Occupied Territories

Oct 25 2024 29 mins  
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

Overcoming Obstacles in Reporting

Oct 18 2024 29 mins  
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

“A Lump in My Throat”: Back to Everyday Life After a Visit to Kyiv

Oct 11 2024 22 mins  
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 Sp

Debrief in the shelter 2/2

Aug 07 2024 37 mins  
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

Discover Ukraine, two years into full-scale war 1/2

Jul 31 2024 31 mins  
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

From Rome to Kyiv, Change Point of View

Jul 24 2024 28 mins  
Listen to the story of one of our Italian fellows, Davide Maria de Luca, who’s life and career took an impressive turn, thanks to our program. The Europe-Ukraine Desk study visit in Kiyv, which he joined in 2023, led him to quit his permanent job at a prominent Italian media outlet, and to relocate as a foreign freelance correspondent in Ukraine. You can subscribe to his newslett

Field Reporting in Ukraine

Jun 24 2024 35 mins  
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

Decolonising Culture and Journalism

May 29 2024 33 mins  
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 whi

Being a Journalist at Suspilne

May 14 2024 30 mins  
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,

Chronicles of Ukrainian Journalists Across the EU

Apr 12 2024 22 mins  
This episode invites you on a trip with a dozen of Ukrainian journalists who toured the biggest newsrooms of Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Spain. Ukrainian fellows met with international colleagues in key cities. For this episode we will concentrate on the three capitals we visited: Budapest, Rome, and Madrid.This episode is the first in a series of four, where we i