In the second year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, international and Ukrainian experts, as well as the entire media community, still perceive the media as a means to inform society about r...
Joanna Krawczyk
Joanna Krawczyk is the director of CORRECTIV. Europe, which strengthens local journalism across the continent through cross-border investigations.
She was until October 2024 the Deputy Managing Director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States East, a leading security, geopolitical and civil society intelligence platform which focuses on political and security transformation in CEE, rebuilding and reconstruction of Ukraine in the framework of the GMF’s Modern Marshall Plan. She also managed the Ukrainian Media Fund, an international initiative to support local media in Ukraine in times of war and in reconstruction period.
Joanna is an Obama Leader, a Member of the Managing Board of European Media and Information Fund, sits in the Advisory Board of Journalismfund.eu and recently became a Member of the Advisory Board of the Allianz Foundation's Risktakers project.
Joanna was the Head of News Partnerships in the Polish biggest legacy newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and the initiator and President of Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation, running, inter alia, the first in Poland Investigative Reporting Grant Scheme for regional journalists and the Local Media Development Program. Under her leadership, the Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation was awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom Award for standing as a beacon of independence and as a bulwark against authoritarianism by the World Association of News Publishers. For two years she was also the Chairwoman of the Leading European Newspaper Alliance.
Besides the emergency support for Ukraine media, there is a need to reestablish the media ecosystem in Ukraine in the hard hit regions. We want to talk about the best ways to help the reconstruction o...
