Ukrainian broadcaster discusses press freedom threats

Ukrainian journalists trying to deliver news about Russian aggression, government corruption and their country’s existential struggles face their own battles, including oligarchic control of media, increasing restrictions on press freedom and even attacks on journalists.

In this episode of Update-1, National Press Club member Viola Gienger, a journalist who has trained and consulted for independent media in Ukraine and across the region, interviews Kateryna Myasnikova, executive director of the Independent Association of Broadcasters (IAB), to discuss the state of media and press freedoms in a Ukraine at war. The IAB is Ukraine’s largest association of electronic media.

Update-1 is produced by Mike Hempen. The podcast can be heard here on the Club website or on iTunes, Sticher and Tunein.