The winners and laureates of the creative competition organized by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) and called Information Front-2022 have been awarded during a solemn ceremony at the NUJU.
“I would like to sincerely thank all the participants of the competition, the members of the jury, for their fruitful and painstaking work,” says President of the NUJU Sergiy Tomilenko. “The results of the competition convincingly demonstrated not only the fact that journalists defend their positions on the information front, bringing the truth about events in Ukraine to the audience around the globe, but also that they demonstrate a considerable level of professionalism and adherence to high journalistic standards.
Sergiy Tomilenko also noted that this meeting is not only the awarding of the winners of the competition, but also an opportunity to talk about the importance of the journalist work, about the contribution that Ukrainian journalists make to information defense and resistance to occupiers.
“We consider this meeting as an opportunity to exchange experience, to find new approaches for each of us, to be even more effective as a journalist and to bring victory closer. The contribution of journalists to the resistance against the occupiers is extremely great,” said the President of the NUJU.
The special guest of the award ceremony is Danylo Ishchenko, correspondent of the Central Television and Radio Studio of the Ministry of Defense. Danylo recently returned to Army FM after losing his leg in the war and undergoing a long course of treatment and rehabilitation.
The results of the creative competition in three nominations were summarized by the professional jury of the NUJU.
Materials competing in the International Solidarity nomination focused on international support for Ukraine during wartime, including humanitarian aid, assistance in receiving refugees, rebuilding towns and villages damaged as a result of the Russian military aggression, support for Ukrainian journalists and the media, etc.
The winners in this nomination were freelancer Olha Hryhorian (for the article published in the Lithuanian publication www.lrytas.lt about Olesia Ustinova from Mariupol, who together with her two children stayed in surrounded Mariupol until mid-March), force-news.com journalist Olena Solodovnikova (for an interview with ex-president of Poland Lech Walesa) and journalist of the online publication Troyitske.city Maryna Zhyvotkova (for an article about the fact that society and the state should develop tools and algorithms to protect victims of sexual violence during the war and study the experience of the countries that had experienced it before).
In the Best Journalistic Work nomination, the winners were determined based on materials whose thematic focus was the efforts of civilian Ukrainians to help civilian Ukrainians affected by the war.
The best journalistic works were submitted to the competition by Nataliya Biriukova, a journalist from the online publication Svoyi.city (for a series of articles, in particular, a story based on the words by Andrii Serbin, an anesthesiologist at Mariupol Hospital 4), freelancer Ihor Zots, (for a story about compatriots from Donbas who came to defend Ukraine back in 2014), journalist of the online publication Texty.org.ua Anastasiya Dziubak (for a story about migrants from occupied town of Antratsyt, whose apartment was put on the list of those where the occupiers would break the locks and accommodate residents from occupied Ukrainian cities).
The Volunteer Journalists nomination awarded volunteer projects already implemented or being implemented at the initiative of journalist teams and individual journalists.
The winners were representatives of the Kherson region: Liubov Rudia for the project entitled Volunteers of the Hornostayivka district (for over 5 months, journalists, together with like-minded benefactors and volunteers in the territory of the temporarily occupied Hornostayivka and Kostyantynivka communities of the Kherson Region, provided assistance to local residents); and Yevheniya Virlych for the fact that the editorial office of the Kavun.City, which she heads, collects funds to help volunteers in Kherson support life, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine bring Victory closer. It turned out that more than UAH 1 million has been collected for such assistance.
The contest was held by the NUJU with the organizational support of the All-Ukrainian Fund Journalist Initiative and the Japan Offspring Fund.
The reward for the first place was UAH 10,000, for the second place – UAH 5,000, for the third place, it was UAH 3,000.
NUJU information service
