As part of this project, leading Ukrainian journalists will share stories about the creation of key media outlets they participated in, as well as the formation of trends and phenomena that defined the country's information agenda and of which the narrators were witnesses.

The topic of the first lecture: 'The Era of Temnyks in Ukrainian Journalism'. The story of the emergence of this phenomenon will be told by the founder of the 'Historical Truth' project ecosystem, 2019 Gongadze Prize laureate Vakhtang Kipiani.

The premiere will take place on March 30 at 18:00 on the Facebook pages of the Georgiy Gongadze Prize, Ukrainian PEN, the publication 'Ukrainian Pravda', the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (kmbs), and the Lviv Media Forum.

Subsequent lectures will be released every Tuesday at 18:00. Among the first speakers of the project: Olha Herasymyuk, Diana Dutsyk, Zurab Alasania, Vitaliy Portnikov, Natalia Ligachova, Sevgil Musaieva, Andriy Kulykov, and Pavlo Kazarin.

The first part of the video lecture series was created with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

Organizational partner: Lviv Media Forum.

The Georgiy Gongadze Prize is an award for journalists, established by the Ukrainian PEN in partnership with kmbs, powered by the kmbs alumni platform and the publication 'Ukrainian Pravda' to support independent journalists.

The prize is awarded once a year on May 21 — the birthday of Georgiy Gongadze. The 2019 laureate was Vakhtang Kipiani — founder of the 'Historical Truth' publication and author of the TV program of the same name, founder of the Press Museum-Archive, author of books. The 2020 laureate was publicist, TV and radio host Pavlo Kazarin.

The Georgiy Gongadze Prize launches the video lecture series 'Journalism of Independent Ukraine: A First-Person Account'