Euromaidan Press

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Euromaidan Press
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    • Euromaidan Press (EP) is an English-language news website launched in 2014 by contributors from Ukraine, sponsored by reader contributions and the International Renaissance Foundation.[1] It shares its name with the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine. Registered as a non-governmental organization, EP's stated goal is to provide English-language material to those interested in Ukrainian topics such as business issues, the economy, military conflict, and tourism.

    News organization

    Euromaidan Press was founded in by Ukrainian volunteers as a newspaper based online in order to provide independent news reporting on issues relevant to Ukraine.

    civil unrest in Ukraine known as Euromaidan.[6] Other journalists contributing to the newspaper have included Maksym Nedrya, Oleh Gychko, Mykhailo Honchar, and Paul A. Goble.[7][8][9]

    The goal of the newspaper's foundation was to provide information to English-language consumers on journalism from Ukraine.[2] The organization registered in Ukraine as a non-governmental organization with the same name.[2] The news organization developed its focus on stories related to military conflict in Ukraine, business issues, the Ukrainian economy, and tourism.[2] The newspaper's founding was an attempt to "collect, rely on, and promote non-partisan, non-religious, non-biased information", as a way to address what the organization saw as a disinformation campaign by Russia in Ukraine.[2]

    News content was setup to be delivered online through the newspaper's website euromaidanpress.com.[10][11][12] The newspaper maintained social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook at Euromaidanpr.[2] A sub-project called the Friends of Ukraine Network released semi-regular news reporting about Ukraine political issues.[2][3] The newspaper's Reft and Light Project was set up in order to analyze totalitarian groups.[2] The news organization worked in conjunction with Euromaidan SOS to bring attention to political prisoners of Ukraine origin jailed in Russia, through the website letmypeoplego.org.ua.[2] The International Renaissance Foundation supported the initiatives of Euromaidan Press.[2][13]

    Reception

    Writing in the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, contributor Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya characterized the news organization among, "a series of online initiatives aimed at raising global awareness of Ukrainian issues".[3] She described Euromaidan Press as "an online newspaper specializing in translations of materials from local Ukrainian news outlets".[3] J. L. Black and Michael Johns, in their book The Return of the Cold War: Ukraine, The West and Russia (2016), cited the news organization as a resource, commenting it had a "colourful website".[14] Euromaidan Press has been relied upon for research on Ukrainian news analyses by The Perfect Storm of the European Crisis (2017),[15] New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine: 2000–2014 (2017) by Christine Emeran,[16] Online around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Apps (2017),[17] and Gerard Toal's Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus (2017).[18]

    See also

    References

    1. ^ Euromaidan Press (2016), Annual Report 2015-2016 (PDF), pp. Finances, Resonance and awards, archived (PDF) from the original on 24 February 2019, retrieved 1 October 2018
    2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k About Us, 2017, archived from the original on 1 October 2018, retrieved 1 October 2018 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
    3. ^
      ISSN 2364-5334
    4. ^ "@matbabiak". Medium. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
    5. ^ Francis, David (29 December 2014). "Putin's Dream of a Russian NHL Collapsing As His Economy Tanks". Foreign Policy. Matthew Babiak, the Canadian managing editor of Euromaidan Press
    6. ^ a b Shearlaw, Maeve (22 November 2016), "Three years after Euromaidan, how young Ukrainians see the future", The Guardian, archived from the original on 1 October 2018, retrieved 1 October 2018
    7. ISBN 978-1760460600
    8. ISBN 978-1594038891
    9. ISBN 978-1526105752
    10. ISBN 978-1138902619
    11. ISBN 978-1472470959
    12. ISBN 978-1137523662
    13. OCLC 992513459
    14. ISBN 978-1138924093
    15. ISBN 978-1443895637
    16. ISBN 978-1472482525
    17. ISBN 978-1610697750
    18. ISBN 978-0190253301

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