THE NATIONAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS OF UKRAINE
Twenty-three participants from the School of Journalism, which was established based on the Ivano-Frankivsk regional union of journalists, accompleted their studies and received their first professional certificates. This is the 13th class of the School. The students were first-year students in the Department of Journalism at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. The classes lasted from September 2024 to May 2025.
The program of the course included, in particular, training sessions, master classes, practical classes, and individual work in various areas of journalistic work, such as writing news, conducting interviews, working in the field, and the basics of photo and video shooting. The bases of practice for future journalists were local TV and radio companies, newsrooms of newspapers and online publications, publishing houses Nova Zoria and Lileya-NV, as well as the Ivano-Frankivsk Journalists’ Solidarity Center (JSC) of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU).
The coaching team comprised experienced journalists from the Prykarpattia region, IDP media workers who had taken temporary shelter in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region during the full-scale war, and employees of Ivano-Frankivsk JSC. Special attention was paid within the framework of the training course program to the coverage of military topics, psychological training for journalists, and the issue of personal safety for media workers.
During the meeting, on the occasion of the solemn end of the academic year at the School of Journalism, both the trainers and the students themselves emphasized the importance of the educational project School of Journalism because students acquire not only basic practical skills but also become closer to their future profession, which helps them determine the further direction of work in the media sphere.
The head of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional union of journalists, Liliya Bodnarchuk, and the coordinator of the School of Journalism, Halyna Prystai, presented future media professionals with certificates of completion of the training course.
A new training course at the School of Journalism will begin in September of this year.
REFERENCE INFORMATION. The School of Journalism of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional union of journalists of the Ukrainian SSR was founded in the fall of 2012. The initiators of its opening were Viktoriya Plakhta, an Honored Journalist of Ukraine / Secretary of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, then Head of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional union of journalists, and Nataliya Dymnich, a well-known Precarpathian journalist / Candidate of Philological Sciences, now editor of Suspilne.Ivano-Frankivsk.
The network of Journalists’ Solidarity Centers is an initiative of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, implemented in collaboration with the International and European Federations of Journalists and UNESCO and with the support of the People of Japan. Our primary goal is to assist media professionals working in Ukraine during the war. The Centers are active in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk. The project is part of UNESCO’s broader efforts to support the Safety of Journalists and Freedom of Expression in Ukraine.
Contact Ivano-Frankivsk JSC at 066 677 0726 (Viktoriya Plakhta, the coordinator of Ivano-Frankivsk JSC). The Center’s address is 25 Sichovykh Striltsiv Street.
Bohdana Zasidko
Ivano-Frankivsk JSC
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