“The laptop received from the NUJU is an opportunity to work and feel like a journalist,” editor-in-chief of Shostka-based Aktsent TV company Viktoriya Horshkova

The laptop from the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) has been handed over to the Shostka-based Aktsent TV and radio company in response to its request.

Volodymyr Sadivnychyi, the head of the Sumy regional organization of the NUJU, performed the honorable mission [of handing the laptop over].

“We have a catastrophic shortage of computers and equipment. Two of our employees are forced to work on computers brought from home,” TV channel editor-in-chief Viktoriya Horshkova told the NUJU press service. “And you need to listen to the material, work with social networks, and write stories. After all, the whole working day of a journalist is gathering information and working at a computer. Moreover, working at the computer takes two-thirds of the working time.”

Since the TV and radio company cannot purchase the necessary equipment with its funds in the conditions of the economic crisis caused by the war, it turned to various philanthropists for help. They also sent the respective request to the Sumy City Council. But the only thing they could help with was typewriters in stock, and they were ready to give them away.

Viktoriya Horshkova says that when she sent an address to the NUJU, it took her a whole day because her old computer, which, after numerous repairs, turned into a “heap of scrap,” is extremely slow.

“The war continues, new blackouts are expected in the winter, and it is important that the work of the television and radio company does not stop at this time. Last year, I took a small netbook from my daughter, which was given to her for her birthday, and the entire editorial staff took turns working on it,” Viktoriya Horshkova recalls. “The battery of the netbook was enough for five hours of work, and during this time, three of our journalists had time to write their stories. And if they didn’t have time, they ran to an invincibility point and finished writing there….”

According to the editor, for her company, the laptop received from the NUJU is “an opportunity to work and feel like a journalist.”

Aktsent was founded in Shostka in 1991. The team consists of 13 people. The company works daily and did not stop even in the most difficult first months of the war when Shostka was under enemy blockade. On the contrary, at that time, they worked almost around the clock, without days off. The company is represented not only on cable networks but also on YouTube and social networks, and the Facebook audience in Shostka covers half the city.

NUJU Information Service