Angelina Kariakina is a journalist, researcher, and co-founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab in Ukraine. She has worked as a journalist for over 17 years – with print media, TV, and online. She worked as Euronews’ Kyiv bureau correspondent for 3 years, and 5 years with the independent Ukrainian media Hromadske – three of them as editor-in-chief. She is the author of the documentary investigations on the Maidan killings and Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia and has also covered the refugee crisis in Europe.

A graduate of the Sergei Bukovsky Documentary School, she was head of news at the Ukrainian Public Broadcaster Suspilne (2021–2023) and is the current advisor to the Chair of the Board. She is also a member of the European Broadcasting Union News Committee and researcher, author, and editor at the Public Interest Journalism Lab’s The Reckoning Project, which documents Russian war crimes. She has researched Russian tactics for targeting medical infrastructure in Syria, Chechnya, and Ukraine and is co-author of reports on countering conspiratorial propaganda, overcoming distrust towards vaccination, and Ukrainians’ hopes and concerns about military service. She has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Die Zeit, Eurozine, and other outlets.

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