Uncertainty is a challenge faced by every media organization—whether it’s due to global conflicts, economic instability, or shifting audience dynamics. The Kyiv Independent has had to learn how to...
Zakhar Protsiuk
Zakhar Protsiuk is the Chief Operating Officer at The Kyiv Independent. He is also a co-founder and managing editor at The Fix Media, a media about the European publishing sector. Before joining The Kyiv Independent, Zakhar worked as a senior project lead at Jnomics, a UK-based media consultancy, where he worked with more than 15 European publishers.
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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...
