Norwegian press writes about Zaporizhzhia journalists

The Norwegian publication Journalisten has begun publishing a series of articles about Zaporizhzhia journalists. Interviews with the editor of the RIA Pivden Svitlana Zalizetskaya and the website’s journalist Nataliya Chaika have already been published. The author is freelance journalist Ole Dag Kvamme.

Ole Dag Kvamme‘s reporting trip to Ukraine was partially funded by the Fritt Ord Foundation. But in finding topics for subsequent interviews and essays, the NUJU helped him. The President of the NUJU, Sergiy Tomilenko, personally took care of the Norwegian media person, suggested areas of work to him, and provided contacts of colleagues who could help the reporter in collecting materials.

Sergiy Tomilenko also directed the correspondent to the Zaporizhzhia JSC of the NUJU, where he could familiarize himself with the work of front-line newspapers and telegram publications.

In May of this year, Ole Dag Kvamme met with the editors of two relocated newspapers at the press center of the JSC, Svitlana Karpenko (Trudova Slava) and Tetiana Velyka (Holos Huliaipillia), as well as the center’s coordinators, Nataliya Kuzmenko and Valentyna Manzhura. During his stay in Zaporizhzhia, Kvamme interviewed Svitlana Zalizetska and Nataliya Chaika and visited the editorial office of RIA Pivden.

Ole Dag Kvamme was told about the great work of the Zaporizhzhia JSC with displaced journalists, about the established editors’ club, and the struggle for the release of captured media workers by the coordinator of the JSC, Nataliya Kuzmenko.

And finally, the first two very interesting interviews with the author’s photographs have appeared in a Norwegian magazine. You can read them in Ukrainian translation on the website of the Zaporizhzhia JSC nsju.zp.ua in the BLOGS section in the “Journalism” section.

Next up – interviews with Svitlana Karpenko and Tetiana Velyka. We are eager to see it!

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 the Zaporizhzhia JSC at 096 277 5352 (Nataliya Kuzmenko and Valentyna Manzhura, coordinators of the Zaporizhzhia JSC). The Center’s address is 15 Sobornyi Avenue.

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