Ukraine moves from state to public broadcasting despite conflict
by Jane WhyattTwo years after Ukraine’s Revolution of Destiny, journalists in the emerging public service broadcasting networks have published details of President Poroshenko’s offshore bank accounts. It marks a media freedom milestone, according to Sumy regional TV chief Mikola Chernotytskyi.
Dnipro, Ukraine (Photo:Hoodrat, Dnipropetrowsk, Montage ECPMF, CC BY-SA 3.0 )
He was speaking to ECPMF at the CIRCOM conference of Europe’s regional broadcasters in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where he gave a progress report on his country’s media transformation. Ukraine is slowly switching from state-run broadcasting to a system based on the western European model, with a Supervisory Board to act as a…
