Artificial intelligence will replace live journalists, the limits of privacy, and who is a journalist – these issues were discussed at Oleksandr Kharchenko’s guest lecture with journalism students.
The lecture on “How Ukrainian Journalism is Changing” was organized by the Commission on Journalism Ethics, a partner of the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University. The lecturer was Oleksandr Kharchenko, a journalist, chief producer of Gazeta.ua and Krayina magazine, former director general of Ukrinform (2014-2023). The event was moderated by the well-known journalist Andriy Kulikov, Chairman of the Commission on Journalistic Ethics.
The speaker shared interesting theses: a journalist is a person who has the ability to fill the void every day; journalism is a struggle against old prejudices and new prejudices.
According to Oleksandr, the changes in Ukrainian journalism are driven by technological development, as opposed to the fact that earlier it depended primarily on the government, in particular the Soviet government. Although now the trend of government and political interference in the work of the media is also returning.
Oleksandr Kharchenko also spoke about the project to support the frontline press, “Close to Zero,” which was launched by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine in cooperation with the Dutch international organization Free Press Unlimited (FPU).
Vladyslava Pavlenko, Anastasiia Monastyrskova, students majoring in Journalism