On April 13 at 18:00, the Georgiy Gongadze Prize will present a lecture by Vitaliy Portnikov "The Birth of Journalism in Independent Ukraine". This is the second episode of the video lecture series "Journalism of Independent Ukraine: A First-Person History."

Vitaliy Portnikov is a publicist, writer, commentator for Radio Liberty, founder and host of the program "Politclub" aired on the channel "Espreso."

During the lecture, you will learn:

how the politics of the USSR turned Ukrainian journalism into provincial journalism;
why Vitaliy Portnikov himself did not want to be a journalist, even though he entered the profession as a schoolboy;
how the perspective of Ukrainian media changed — their way of talking about the world and Ukraine;
the only way for a journalist to succeed in the profession.

The lecture will be broadcast on the Facebook pages of the Georgiy Gongadze Prize, PEN Ukraine, Ukrainian Pravda publication, Kyiv-Mohyla Business School [kmbs], Lviv Media Forum, Detector Media, and Public Media Academy.

Let us remind you that the video lecture series "Journalism of Independent Ukraine: A First-Person History" is a project in which leading Ukrainian journalists share stories about the creation of key media, as well as the formation of trends and phenomena that defined the information agenda in the country and of which the narrators were witnesses.

Previous lectures in the series:

The first part of the video lecture series was created with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Ukraine and Belarus.

Organizational partner: Lviv Media Forum.

Independent Ukrainian Journalism: Vitaliy Portnikov's Lecture as Part of the Georgiy Gongadze Prize Project