Media workers from east, south, and west of Ukraine visit Chernivtsi JSC

To study the experience of the Bukovyna print and electronic media and share their own, editors of local newspapers from the Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Donetsk, and the Kherson Regions visited the Chernivtsi Journalists’ Solidarity Center (JSC).

During a two-day meeting with Bukovyna publishers and media managers, the guests visited the Molodyi Bukovynets publishing house, and the newsroom of the 6262 website relocated to Chernivtsi at the beginning of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine. The participants also discussed the possibilities of survival of the media, and first of all, of print media.

“Nowadays, it is challenging for local newspapers to work as their circulation is rapidly decreasing, there is no advertising, and it is difficult to establish cooperation with territorial communities,” states the editor-in-chief of the Narodna Volia newspaper from Nadvirna, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ivan Hryzhuk.

The guests praised the project of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) to support the local press in the de-occupied and front-line territories. After all, it is much more difficult for our colleagues there to carry out their work of conveying accurate information to people.

Call the Chernivtsi JSC by dialing 068 286 3706 (Volodymyr Bober, the Chernivtsi Center coordinator). The JSC is located at 96 Nezalezhnosti Avenue.

As earlier reported, the Journalists’ Solidarity Centers is an initiative of the NUJU implemented with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists and UNESCO. The initiative is designated to help media representatives working in Ukraine during the war. The Centers operate in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro and provide journalists with organizational, technical, legal, psychological, and other types of assistance.

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