NUJU's regional organization in Zaporizhzhia has new members now • NUJU

During the first meeting this year, the secretariat of the Zaporizhzhia regional organization of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) discussed the results of the online plenum of the NUJU held the day earlier.

The participants in the meeting focused in detail on the priority work of the NUJU determined by the plenum in the conditions of Russian aggression, which has been going on for almost two years, and determined the place and role of the regional journalistic organization in this process.

“The enemy’s goal is not only to defeat Ukrainians on the battlefield, but also to deprive them of access to true information. Together with all Ukrainian media workers, Zaporizhzhia journalists, despite the risks and dangers, resist this threat, fulfill their professional duty with dignity, and work in the interests of society; our ranks are strengthened and growing,” noted the head of Zaporizhzhia regional organization of the NUJU / Honored Journalist of Ukraine, Nataliya Kuzmenko.

So, at the meeting of the secretariat, the editors of local newspapers Tetiana Velyka from the Holos Huliaipillia newspaper, Kateryna Zavarzina from the Nashe Zhyttia newspaper, and Oleksandra Kot from the Dniprovski Vohni newspaper.

Journalist certificates were also presented to Liubov Starodvorska, the editor-in-chief of Horozhanin.Inform newspaper, Tetiana Ivanets and Krystyna Pyrohova, professors of the Faculty of Journalism of the Zaporizhzhia National University, who were accepted into the ranks of the Zaporizhzhia regional organization of the NUJU at the previous meeting of the secretariat.

zaporizhzhya sekretariat1 — The secretariat meeting accepted female editors of local newspapers into the ranks of the NUJU

Call Zaporizhzhia JSC at 096 277 5352 (Nataliya Kuzmenko and Valentyna Manzhura, the Zaporizhzhia JSC coordinators). The Center’s address is 152 Sobornyi Avenue.

ABOUT JSC

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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Valentyna Bystrova

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