Winner of Georgiy Gongadze Prize for Ukrainian journalists is announced

This year's winner of the Georgiy Gongadze Prize for Ukrainian journalists is Tetiana Troshchynska, Director of Strategic Analysis and Development of Socially Influential Content at Suspilne, Ukraine’s public broadcaster.

"Journalism is the work of people who care. Many people would say that we inform people, explain the whys and the wherefores to them, and tell them stories. That’s true. But that is not enough. If we care, we are a platform for discussions, positions and arguments, not for shouting at each other.

If we care as journalists, we have an impact on changing the political culture in the country. If we care, we become part of the struggle for democracy, part of the struggle for Ukrainian statehood. If we care, we are part of the struggle for human dignity," Troshchynska said at the awards ceremony.

Other nominees for the award were Anna Babinets, investigative journalist at Slidstvo.info, and Olha Rudenko, editor-in-chief and founder of The Kyiv Independent.

The nominees were evaluated based on the following criteria:

• their commitment to the principles and values of independent journalism;
• innovation;
• a significant contribution to the development of a particular genre or the media environment as a whole;
• the creation of stories that led to the solution or an understanding of certain problems in society and changes in the country.

It was announced during the awards ceremony that 21 Ukrainian journalists lost their lives during the year, including Alla Pushkarchuk, Dmytro Rybakov and Volodymyr Myroniuk.

The Georgiy Gongadze Prize is one of the most significant awards for professional journalists in Ukraine. It was established in 2019 in partnership with the family of Georgiy Gongadze, who co-founded Ukrainska Pravda.

In 2023, the Georgiy Gongadze Prize was awarded to Bohdan Lohvynenko, a journalist, writer, presenter and founder of the volunteer media project Ukraїner.

The previous winners of the Prize were Vakhtang Kipiani (2019), Pavlo Kazarin (2020), Myroslava Barchuk (2021), Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka (2022), and Bohdan Lohvynenko (2023).

It was announced in 2022 that a special award was being introduced, which was posthumously given to documentary filmmaker and photojournalist Maksym Levin.

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