NUJU and Kharkiv Administration leaders agree on cooperation

The interaction between the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) and the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration is essential. It should be developed in order to revive mass media in the region, record war crimes by journalists, and create interesting and important information about the situation in the region.

This was discussed on May 30 during a meeting between the President of the NUJU, Sergiy Tomilenko, and the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Syniehubov.

The NUJU President, on behalf of the journalistic community, thanked the residents and authorities of the Kharkiv Region for their heroic resistance to the occupiers and the extraordinary efforts to restore the region after the liberation of its significant part from occupation. In turn, the head of the Regional Military Administration declared his openness to dialogue with journalists and prompt response to their appeals.

Sergiy Tomilenko informed about the support of the journalistic community of Ukraine, and especially local media, provided by international partners, in particular, the Swiss non-profit organization Fondation Hirondelle and the International Institute for Regional Media and Information (IRMI, Ukraine). Such support contributes to the economic sustainability of local media in the Kharkiv Region. In particular, a report on the study of the needs of local newspapers in the de-occupied and front-line territories, conducted within the framework of the Increasing the Sustainability of Ukrainian Media project, was presented.

Sergiy Tomilenko presented the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration with the Union’s publication We Are From Ukraine, which contains a lot of interesting information from the Ukrainian media, and the report Murdered Free Speech prepared by the NUJU about the losses of the Ukrainian media during the first year of the war.

“Photographs of the Obrii Iziumshchyny newspaper’s newsroom destroyed by the occupiers are vivid illustrations to this report,” noted the NUJU President.

In turn, Oleh Syniehubov handed Sergiy Tomilenko the photo albums Chronicles of War and Chronicles of Liberation, published with the assistance of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, which record telling moments of the partial occupation of the region, its liberation, and restoration.

NUJU Information Service