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MediaMovement’s Call to Ukrainian Journalists

Seven years after the Revolution of Dignity, the independence of Ukrainian journalism is under attack again. Professional standards are being replaced by anonymous channels, bot farms, and oligarch-owned media that only serve their sponsors. Business moguls are strangling the media. While the government, which is supposed to protect the freedom of speech, is the one suppressing it.

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Today, on the Day of radio and TV industry workers, we urge Ukrainian media workers to join the MediaMovement.

Seven years after the Revolution of Dignity, the independence of Ukrainian journalism is under attack again. Professional standards are being replaced by anonymous channels, bot farms, and oligarch-owned media that only serve their sponsors. Business moguls are strangling the media. While the government, which is supposed to protect the freedom of speech, is the one suppressing it.

We are calling for those reporters who remain honest in spite of the current environment. Those guided by ethical standards and not by someone’s wishes. Who refuse to put a price tag on their conscience. It is time to unite. New elections are coming soon and everyone knows what that means – renewed pressure from oligarchs, business moguls, politicians, and the government.

Separated, we are powerless against this threat. Together, we are unbeatable. We proved it during the 2004 journalistic revolution and the Stop Censorship movement in 2010-2014.
However, now we have an even more ambitious goal before us: creating an efficient self-governed journalistic organization that will be capable of combating the business and political pressure put on the freedom of speech. An organization that could unite all Ukrainian journalists.

If you support our cause, visit https://forms.gle/fipHZBvYAefGjTjx6
The newsletters will contain all the information about the MediaMovement, including the criteria and procedure for joining the MediaMovement. Join us. And together we will protect our voices.

Sevgil Musaieva, editor-in-chief, “Ukrayinska Pravda”

Yunus Erdogdu – en.ukraynahaber.com

Myroslava Barchuk, UA:PBC

Anna Babinets, Slidstvo.info

Andrii Ianitskyi, Espreso TV

Natalia Ligachova, Detector Media

Oksana Romaniuk, Institute of Mass Information

Yuliia Bankova, NGO Hromadske

Yevhenia Motorevska, editor-in-chief, Hromadske

Anna Myronyuk, journalist of the closed Kyiv Post

Mykhailo Tkach, head of the Investigation department of Ukrainian Pravda

Andriy Kulikov, Hromadske Radio

Tetyana Troshchynska, Editor-in-Chief, Hromadske Radio

Natalia Sokolenko, Ukrainian Radio, UA:PBC

Denys Bihus, Bihus.info

Oleg Bazar, LB.ua

Sonya Koshkinka, LB.ua

Natalia Vyhovska, journalist, IMI representative, Zaporizhia

Dmytro Tuzov, host of Radio NV and the Media Club program

Svitlana Ostapa, Detector Media

Borys Davydenko, Editor-in-Chief of LIGA.net

Taras Petriv, Society Foundation

Vadym Miskyi, Detector Media

Zakhar Kolisnichenko, journalist, IMI representative, Cherkasy

Maya Golub, journalist, IMI representative, Lutsk

Serhiy Nikitenko, journalist, IMI representative, Kherson

Alyona Romaniuk, journalist, “On the other side of the info”, “On the other side of Putin’s lies”

Gaygysyz Geldiyev, Senior Partner, Jnomics Media

Galyna Petrenko, Detector Media

Otar Dovzhenko, Detector Media

Alyona Bereza, journalist, IMI representative, Khmelnytsky

Oleksiy Zakharchenko, journalist, IMI representative, Sumy

Yaroslav Gulan, journalist, IMI representative, Uzhhorod

Oksana Trokoz, journalist, IMI representative, Zhytomyr

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