The European Press Prize, the awards for excellence in European journalism, brings to the IJF its Lightning Talks. Three inspirational sessions by renowned European Press Prize laureates will bring yo...
Olga Rudenko
Olga Rudenko is the editor-in-chief of The Kyiv Independent, an award-winning media start-up launched in November 2021 by the former editorial team of the Kyiv Post. Olga is the former deputy editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Post. She has written for global publications, and was a fellow at the Chicago Booth School of Business in 2021.
Events IJF 2024
Russian soldiers have committed over 120,000 war crimes in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion, according to Ukrainian authorities. In order to investigate these crimes, show their syst...
Is truth the first casualty of war? How we stand for journalistic freedoms in Ukraine
The panel will focus on the challenges of protecting free speech when one’s country is at war. Two years into the Russian war, the state of free speech in Ukraine has worsened. As noted by a local w...
The Kyiv Independent: a Ukrainian media startup’s unprecedented success during war
The Kyiv Independent was founded in November 2021 by a group of journalists who were fired from their newspaper by a local oligarch for defending editorial independence. When Russia invaded Ukraine in...
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