Leading Zaporizhzhia media has received new equipment

The Zaporizhzhia Journalists’ Solidarity Center has provided the weekly newspaper “MIG” with a new laptop. This is the leading regional information and publicistic printed media with over 80-year history.

With the start of the large-scale invasion and occupation of a larger territory of Zaporizhzhia, the newspaper’s release was suspended. But journalists continued to update the media’s website and to look for ways to resume printing.

The editorial staff has already joined to two grant projects and resume printing special issues. In addition journalists actively fill the site and pages of the newspaper on social networks.

“Thanks to technical support, we can work more quickly and efficiently,” said Svitlana Shkarupa, the reporter of the newspaper “MIG”.

Technical support is possible thanks to the close cooperation of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine and the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany in partnership with the Ukrainian Press Academy.

To address the Journalists’ Solidarity Center, please call 096 277 53 52 (Nataliya Kuzmenko, Valentyna Manzhura, the coordinator of the Zaporizhzhia Center). Address: 152, Soborny Avenue.

Journalists’ Solidarity Centers is an initiative of the NUJU implemented with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists, as well as UNESCO. The initiative is designed to help media representatives working in Ukraine during the war. The JSCs 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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