At the beginning of April, the Chapter of the Georgiy Gongadze Prize formed a shortlist of nominees for the 2021 Prize. They are TV host Myroslava Barchuk, editor-in-chief of Liga.net Borys Davidenko, and reporter, editor-in-chief of Reporters Mariychka Paplauskaite.

We want to get to know them better and look behind the scenes of their work, so we continue the tradition of online interviews with each of them, started last year.

Schedule of meetings:

April 15, 18:00 Myroslava Barchuk in conversation with Larysa Denysenko;
April 17, 18:00 Mariychka Paplauskaite in conversation with Myroslava Gongadze;
April 19, 18:00 Borys Davidenko in conversation with Taras Prokopyshyn.

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The Georgiy Gongadze Prize was established by PEN Ukraine in partnership with the Alumni Association of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, kmbs, and the publication Ukrainian Pravda.

The goal of the Prize is to support those journalists who are not afraid of challenges, can find innovative ways to convey information, open new opportunities for the entire media environment, and are capable of creating sustainability in what they do.

According to the conditions of the Prize, only members of the Chapter have the right to nominate journalists for the award.

This year, the Chapter of the Prize includes: the wife of Georgiy Gongadze, journalist, editor-in-chief, and head of the Ukrainian Service of "Voice of America" Myroslava Gongadze, president of the Ukrainian PEN, writer Andriy Kurkov, journalist, co-founder and owner of the publication "Ukrainian Pravda" Olena Prytula, dean of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School Oleksandr Savruk, patron of the Prize and representative of the powered KMBS Alumni platform Maksym Dyadyk, writer, human rights activist Larysa Denysenko, founder of "Historical Truth" and the Museum-Archive of the Press, first laureate of the Gongadze Prize Vakhtang Kipiani, publicist, laureate of the Gongadze Prize Pavlo Kazarin, head of the Kyiv bureau of "Radio Liberty" Inna Kuznetsova.

The Prize is awarded annually on May 21, the birthday of Gongadze. The laureates of the Prize were Vakhtang Kipiani (2019) and Pavlo Kazarin (2020).

General media partner: Public Broadcasting of Ukraine.

Their Rules: Online Interview with the Finalists of the Gongadze Prize-2021