We invite you to the award ceremony for this year's laureate of the Georgiy Gongadze Prize, which will take place on May 21 at 19:15 on the UA: CULTURE TV channel.

Among the finalists for the Prize: founder of 'Toronto Television' Roman Vintoniv, publicist and TV host Pavlo Kazarin, and founder of the Ukrainer project Bohdan Logvynenko.

This year, the event will be held in a television format for the first time, hosted by Yuriy Makarov and Olga Snitsarchuk.

In addition to the Prize finalists, the broadcast participants will include:

Myroslava Gongadze, wife of Georgiy Gongadze and head of the Ukrainian service of 'Voice of America';
Andriy Kurkov, writer and president of Ukrainian PEN;
Larysa Denysenko, writer, human rights activist, and journalist;
Ihor Kozlovskyi, scientist, publicist;
Vakhtang Kipiani, the first laureate of the Prize, editor-in-chief of the online publication 'Historical Truth' and the eponymous TV magazine on the Espresso channel, as well as the founder of the Press Archive Museum;
Yevhen Hlibovytsky, strategy expert.

The Georgiy Gongadze Prize is an award for independent journalists, established in 2019 by Ukrainian PEN in partnership with the publication 'Ukrainian Pravda' and powered KMBS Alumni platform.

The long list of nominees for the Prize this year included 22 Ukrainian journalists. Criteria for nominating candidates included:

innovation;
significant contribution to the development of the genre or journalistic environment;
professionalism and competence.

Among the patrons who supported the Prize and the development of independent journalism in Ukraine are kmbs alumni: Mykola Sushko, Dmytro Chernov, Lyudmyla Perebynos, Maksym Dyadyk, Mykola Demchenko, and Olga Mishurovska, Oleh Brusilovskyi, Oleksandr Tkachuk, Roman Kvashenko, Serhiy Dulepov, Yaroslav Volkovetskyi, the Brunner, Viknyansky, and Mishchenko families.

The Kyiv-Mohyla Business School is an organizational partner of the event, so you can watch the ceremony on our Facebook page, as well as on the YouTube channel UA: Culture, Facebook pages of the Georgiy Gongadze Prize, PEN Ukraine, Ukrainian Pravda, and Detector Media.

See you there!

Award Ceremony for the Georgiy Gongadze Prize Laureate-2020