Trainings

How to recognize a fake and stop its spread in the mass media

February 25-26, 2019

Trainer: Andriy Kulykov, editor, journalist, radio host, TV presenter, media expert, media trainer, head of the NGO “Comissionon on Journalism Ethics”

The participants learned and practiced the issues of:

  • propaganda markers in journalism publications;
  • author’s fiction and the audience’s conflicting reaction;
  • selection of the information;
  • how to create journalism publications which can be interesting for the readers.

The standarts of the modern photo report

December 13-1, 2018

Trainer:  Mykola Tymchenko, bild editor in the Ukrainian “Day” newspaper. Earlier photojournalist for the “Khreshchatyk” and the “Vechirniy Kyiv” newspaper.

The participants learned and practiced the issues of:

  • difficulties of the photojournalist’s field work;
  • details photojournalist should mind;
  • markers of correspondence between a photo and a text;
  • how to make a good front page photo;
  • how to find the brink between a wish to make a good photo and a risk for your life and health.
  • copyright for a photojournalist.

The priciples of the Ukrainian broadcasting to foreign countries

December 4-5, 2018

Trainer: Vadym Lubchak, editor-in-chief of the UATV website, member of the National journalists assosiation of Ukraine, coordinator of the Ukrainian Journalism Platform.

The participants learned and practiced the issues of:

  • projects of the “UATV” channel;
  • principles of interaction between the different language newsrooms in the online environment;
  • freedom of speech during the state of war.

Legal information in mass media: actuality, social demand, risk during the preparation

November 7-8, 2018 

Trainer: Iryna Panasenko, journalist, press secretary of the Main territorial Department of justice in Sumy region

The participants learned and practiced the issues of:

  • sources the legal information;
  • layout of legal heading for the mass media and its content;
  • how to create mass media publications on legal topics.

The news: how to create the real ones and to reveal the fake ones

April 16-17, 2018

Trainer: Andriy Kulykov, editor, journalist, radio host, TV presenter, media expert, media trainer, head of the NGO “Comissionon on Journalism Ethics”

The participants learned and practiced the issues of:

  • what can and should be the news;
  • the content formation and the correctness of news’ presentation;
  • searching, recognizing, and revealing the fiction in the news;
  • how to create the real news and to reveal the fake ones.

What you should know about radio news: regular risks for the audience or deception?

Fabruary 14-15, 2018

Trainer: Volodymyr Rizun, professor, Doctor of Philology, director of the Institute of Journalism (TSNUK)

The participants learned and practiced the issues of:

  • відрізняти якісну й правдиву інформацію;
  • виявляти маніпулятивні спроби впливу на громадську думку;
  • пошук подій, збір фактів, робота з експертами;
  • тема-підводка новин;
  • як не стати жертвами маніпуляцій.

Self representation and persuasion in journalism

January 22-23, 2018

Trainer: Inna Penchuk, professor, the head of the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and PR in the Classic Private University (Zaporizhzhia)

The participants learned and practiced the issues of:

  • journalism meta-message;
  • the constant of the journalism influence;
  • the attention vector and viewers’ expectations;
  • the viewer’s and the studio guest’s motivations;
  • non-verbal behavior behind the camera;
  • the preparation of speech for the TV broadcasting.

The journalism standards at times of war and crisis

January 16-17, 2018 

Trainer: Valeriy Ivanov, professor, Doctor of Philology, member of the ECREA, president of the Ukrainian Press Academy

The participants learned and practiced the issues of:

  • Recent topics and methods of information checking;
  • the work with sources of information;
  • forms of representation, avoiding hate-speech;
  • a journalist in a war.

Mass Media and Manipulations

December 26-27, 2017  

Trainer: Alla Fedoryna, coordinator of the NGO “Sumy Press Club”, media expert

The participants learned and practiced the issues of:

  • information and propaganda;
  • standards of journalism and the reasons they are violated;
  • the concept of self-regulation in the journalistic environment;
  • fake news and its markers;
  • methods to recognize mass media manipulations.

Modern Standards of Ukrainian Media Convergence: Experience of the “Day” newspaper

December 4-5, 2017

The participants of the training:

  • discussed the advantages and disadvantages of convergence in new media;
  • defined the main purpose of convergent media;
  • got practical tips for searching the quality content;
  • learned the paculiarities of creating content in the “Day” newspaper.