The Georgiy Gongadze Prize for journalists was established by the Ukrainian PEN in partnership with the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School Alumni Association and the publication "Ukrainian Pravda."

This year, 21 Ukrainian journalists were included in the longlist for the Georgiy Gongadze Prize. Three participants made it to the shortlist:

Vakhtang Kipiani (1971) – journalist, publicist, historian. Editor-in-chief of the online publication "Historical Truth" and the TV magazine of the same name on the ZIK channel, founder of the Press Archive Museum.

Taras Prokopyshyn (1991) – CEO and one of the founders of the media project The Ukrainians, founder of the Creatives project, an online magazine about leaders in the creative industries.

Serhiy Rakhmanin (1969) – first deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mirror of the Week," author of the programs "Apocrypha" on the radio "NV" and "Playing Classics" on the ZIK channel.

According to the conditions of the Georgiy Gongadze Prize, candidates must meet the following criteria:

commitment to the principles and values of independent journalism,
professionalism and competence,
innovation,
significant contribution to the development of a specific genre or media environment as a whole,
creation of materials that led to the resolution or understanding of certain societal issues and changes in the country.

Only members of the Chapter have the right to nominate journalists for the Prize. This year, the Chapter includes Georgiy Gongadze's wife, journalist, editor-in-chief, and head of the Ukrainian service of "Voice of America" Myroslava Gongadze, president of the Ukrainian PEN, writer Andriy Kurkov, dean of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School Oleksandr Savruk, journalist, co-founder, and owner of the publication "Ukrainian Pravda" Olena Prytula, head of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School Alumni Association Mykola Demchenko, strategy expert, head of the expert company pro.mova, member of the Nestor Group, member of the supervisory board of Public Broadcasting Yevhen Hlibovytsky, journalist, translator, correspondent of the magazine "Ukrainian Week" in France Alla Lazareva, journalist, writer, human rights activist Larysa Denysenko, professor of history, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University Serhiy Plokhiy.

The name of the laureate will be announced during the award ceremony on May 21. On this day, Georgiy Gongadze would have turned 50 years old.

Gongadze Prize: Announcement of Nominees