In the first year of the programme, fellowships (including a five-week placement with a media organisation in the EU) are taking place between August 2016-February 2017.
Journalists from Eastern Partnership countries, or journalists working for independent or public service media outlets in the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) are eligible for the fellowship. Freelance journalists are also eligible.
Through mentoring and co-operation, the journalists will also link up with each other to strengthen co-operation of newsrooms in different Eastern Partnership countries in terms of sharing content, and also in formulating and promoting high standards of news reporting, public service broadcasting standards, and regulation of propaganda in their home countries.
2016 -2017 Fellows
The five selected fellows are:
Yana Biliaieva, MYMEDIA and Detector Media, Lviv, Ukraine
Host organisation: ZDF public television, Mainz, Germany
Thematic focus: Russia's influence in Germany, media reform for Ukraine.
Yuliana Romanyshyn, Kyiv Post, Ukraine
Host organisation: Spiegel Online, Hamburg, Germany
Thematic focus: Refugee crisis in Germany alongside IDP experience in Ukraine, focus on data visualisation and media standards.
Olena Solodovnikova, Road Control newspaper, Ukraine
Host organisation: Eastbook.eu, Poland
Thematic focus: Release of hostages in Eastern Ukraine and the propaganda war; comparative reform of coal industry in Poland/Ukraine.
Levani Tchikadze, MA student (Journalism & Media Analysis in Kaunas, Lithuania), Georgia
Host organisation: DELFI/Lithuania Tribune, Vilnius, Lithuania
Thematic focus: Pro-Russian tendencies in Lithuania.
Eter Turadze, Batumelebi newspaper, Batumi, Georgia
Host organisation: Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg, GermanyThematic focus: Refugees in EU.
The journalist work produced during their fellowships by the 2016-2017 fellows is highlighted below.
Yana Biliaieva, MYMEDIA and Detector Media, Lviv, Ukraine
Host organisation: ZDF public television, Mainz, Germany
Thematic focus: Russia's influence in Germany, media reform for Ukraine.
The following are a selection of articles written by Yana for MYMEDIA during the time of her fellowship:
Свобода СМИ по-украински: взгляд Запада и Украины (Freedom of the Media in Ukrainian: The View from the West and Ukraine), published on 17 September 2016, about the conflicting views of Ukrainian and Western experts on freedom of speech and safety of journalists in Ukraine.
Дэвид Саттер: «Когда пропаганда стоит жизни людей, запрет российских каналов обсуждаем» (Author David Satter Talks about Kremlin Ban on Him), published on 5 October 2016 - an interview with David Satter, an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and expert on Russia and the USSR, about Russian propaganda and media influence in Ukraine and the US.
Как Украина борется с российской пропагандой (How Ukraine Struggles With Russian Propaganda), published on 19 October 2016, providing an overview of expert opinion on the methods used in Ukraine to fight Russian propaganda.
21 совет журналистам-расследователям от Пулитцеровского лауреата (21 Tips for Investigative Journalists from A Pulitzer Laureate), published on 30 September 2016, where David Crawford, who investigated the shooting down of the MH17 flight over Eastern Ukraine, provides advice to local journalists. Crawford has undertaken several big investigations on Russia.
Американская журналистка о Трампе в СМИ: «Это как наркомания. На каком-то этапе уже трудно остановиться» (American Journalist about Trump in the Media: "It's Like an Addiction. At A Certain Stage, It Becomes Difficult to Stop.”) - interview, published on 7 November 2016, with Betsy Fischer, an American journalist who produced interviews with top politicians on NBS for 23 years. Yana discussed with her the "Trump phenomenon", media standards, and Russian intrusion into the American information space and political system.
Yuliana Romanyshyn, Kyiv Post, Ukraine
Host organisation: Spiegel Online, Hamburg, Germany
Thematic focus: Refugee crisis in Germany alongside IDP experience in Ukraine, focus on data visualisation and media standards.
During her fellowship, Yuliana wrote Flüchtlinge in der Ukraine: Wie das Leben weitergeht (Refugees in Ukraine: Life Goes On), published on 16 January 2017. The war in Ukraine has driven thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have ended up in refugee camps and know they can never return to their old homes and lives. How can they manage with that stark reality, asks Yuliana Romanyshyn in this story, Life Goes On, written for Spiegel Online.
There are more than 1.6 million internally displaced persons who have fled from war-torn Eastern Ukraine to other parts of Ukraine, alongside around 900,000 that fled to Russia, and smaller numbers to Belarus and EU countries. Seven refugee camps in Ukraine have been set up by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) on behalf of Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ).
Yuliana's report includes interviews with refugees from Donbas at a GIZ-run camp in Kharkiv, and the report includes data visualisation tracking the movements of refugees, as well as photographs from the camps by her Kyiv Post colleague, Anastasia Vlasova.
Yuliana also contributed to the following data-rich Spiegel Online analysis, published on 26 October 2016: Angezählt: Hillary Clinton führt klar vor Donald Trump, die US-Wahl scheint knapp zwei Wochen vor dem Stichtag entschieden. Wirklich? (Countdown: Hillary Clinton is Clearly Ahead of Donald Trump, the US Election Seems to Have Been Decided Just Two Weeks Before Election Day. Really?)
Olena Solodovnikova, Road Control newspaper, Ukraine
Host organisation: Eastbook.eu, Poland
Thematic focus: Release of hostages in Eastern Ukraine and the propaganda war; comparative reform of coal industry in Poland/Ukraine.
During her fellowship, Olena wrote the following piece for Eastbook.eu, published on 22 November 2016: Украинские заложники. Изнанка спасательных операций (Ukrainian Hostages. The Rescue Operations from the Other Side of the Fence), in which she charts the challenges she faced in the harrowing experience of securing the release of her husband, a fellow journalist captured by separatists in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine.
On 6 December 2016, Eastbook.eu published a second article by Olena: Ян Пекло: Лучшее оружие против пропаганды — правда (Jan Piekło - The Best Weapon Against Propaganda is the Truth). The piece is an interview with New Diplomacy co-founder, Jan Piekło, a former journalist who wrote for samizdat media under communist rule in Poland, and later covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Jan, now Poland's Ambassador to Ukraine, explains that the best way to fight propaganda is to report the truth about what is going on in Eastern Ukraine.
On 20 December, Olena wrote Услышать Силезию (Listening to Silesia) for Eastbook.eu, in which she examines the lessons of the reform of the coal sector in Poland for the restructuring of the energy sector in Ukraine, as the government intends to close a significant number of unprofitable mines and shed thousands of jobs. And there are many parallels between Donetsk, host to Ukraine's coal fields, and Silesia, with its own strong regional identity in Poland.
Host organisation: ZDF public television, Mainz, Germany
Thematic focus: Russia's influence in Germany, media reform for Ukraine.
The following are a selection of articles written by Yana for MYMEDIA during the time of her fellowship:
Свобода СМИ по-украински: взгляд Запада и Украины (Freedom of the Media in Ukrainian: The View from the West and Ukraine), published on 17 September 2016, about the conflicting views of Ukrainian and Western experts on freedom of speech and safety of journalists in Ukraine.
Дэвид Саттер: «Когда пропаганда стоит жизни людей, запрет российских каналов обсуждаем» (Author David Satter Talks about Kremlin Ban on Him), published on 5 October 2016 - an interview with David Satter, an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and expert on Russia and the USSR, about Russian propaganda and media influence in Ukraine and the US.
Как Украина борется с российской пропагандой (How Ukraine Struggles With Russian Propaganda), published on 19 October 2016, providing an overview of expert opinion on the methods used in Ukraine to fight Russian propaganda.
21 совет журналистам-расследователям от Пулитцеровского лауреата (21 Tips for Investigative Journalists from A Pulitzer Laureate), published on 30 September 2016, where David Crawford, who investigated the shooting down of the MH17 flight over Eastern Ukraine, provides advice to local journalists. Crawford has undertaken several big investigations on Russia.
Американская журналистка о Трампе в СМИ: «Это как наркомания. На каком-то этапе уже трудно остановиться» (American Journalist about Trump in the Media: "It's Like an Addiction. At A Certain Stage, It Becomes Difficult to Stop.”) - interview, published on 7 November 2016, with Betsy Fischer, an American journalist who produced interviews with top politicians on NBS for 23 years. Yana discussed with her the "Trump phenomenon", media standards, and Russian intrusion into the American information space and political system.
Yuliana Romanyshyn, Kyiv Post, Ukraine
Host organisation: Spiegel Online, Hamburg, Germany
Thematic focus: Refugee crisis in Germany alongside IDP experience in Ukraine, focus on data visualisation and media standards.
During her fellowship, Yuliana wrote Flüchtlinge in der Ukraine: Wie das Leben weitergeht (Refugees in Ukraine: Life Goes On), published on 16 January 2017. The war in Ukraine has driven thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have ended up in refugee camps and know they can never return to their old homes and lives. How can they manage with that stark reality, asks Yuliana Romanyshyn in this story, Life Goes On, written for Spiegel Online.
There are more than 1.6 million internally displaced persons who have fled from war-torn Eastern Ukraine to other parts of Ukraine, alongside around 900,000 that fled to Russia, and smaller numbers to Belarus and EU countries. Seven refugee camps in Ukraine have been set up by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) on behalf of Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ).
Yuliana's report includes interviews with refugees from Donbas at a GIZ-run camp in Kharkiv, and the report includes data visualisation tracking the movements of refugees, as well as photographs from the camps by her Kyiv Post colleague, Anastasia Vlasova.
Yuliana also contributed to the following data-rich Spiegel Online analysis, published on 26 October 2016: Angezählt: Hillary Clinton führt klar vor Donald Trump, die US-Wahl scheint knapp zwei Wochen vor dem Stichtag entschieden. Wirklich? (Countdown: Hillary Clinton is Clearly Ahead of Donald Trump, the US Election Seems to Have Been Decided Just Two Weeks Before Election Day. Really?)
Olena Solodovnikova, Road Control newspaper, Ukraine
Host organisation: Eastbook.eu, Poland
Thematic focus: Release of hostages in Eastern Ukraine and the propaganda war; comparative reform of coal industry in Poland/Ukraine.
During her fellowship, Olena wrote the following piece for Eastbook.eu, published on 22 November 2016: Украинские заложники. Изнанка спасательных операций (Ukrainian Hostages. The Rescue Operations from the Other Side of the Fence), in which she charts the challenges she faced in the harrowing experience of securing the release of her husband, a fellow journalist captured by separatists in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine.
On 6 December 2016, Eastbook.eu published a second article by Olena: Ян Пекло: Лучшее оружие против пропаганды — правда (Jan Piekło - The Best Weapon Against Propaganda is the Truth). The piece is an interview with New Diplomacy co-founder, Jan Piekło, a former journalist who wrote for samizdat media under communist rule in Poland, and later covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Jan, now Poland's Ambassador to Ukraine, explains that the best way to fight propaganda is to report the truth about what is going on in Eastern Ukraine.
On 20 December, Olena wrote Услышать Силезию (Listening to Silesia) for Eastbook.eu, in which she examines the lessons of the reform of the coal sector in Poland for the restructuring of the energy sector in Ukraine, as the government intends to close a significant number of unprofitable mines and shed thousands of jobs. And there are many parallels between Donetsk, host to Ukraine's coal fields, and Silesia, with its own strong regional identity in Poland.
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NEW DIPLOMACY's Independent Journalism Fellowship for Eastern Partnership Countries
Project objectives
- to raise the standards of talented news reporters from Eastern Partnership countries through placements with leading broadcast and print media in EU counties, to strengthen mutual understanding of the challenges facing media in the Eastern Partnership countries, and to improve EU countries' media reporting of events in the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia
- to formulate and promote common standards and practices in the Eastern Partnership countries concerning public service broadcasting, concerning policies to curb propaganda, and concerning overall standards of independent news reporting
- to increase interlinkages between leading or emerging media outlets and individual journalists in Eastern Partnership countries with counterparts in other Eastern Partnership countries and in EU member countries, and further adoption of shared standards and co-operation on news gathering and content sharing.
The New Diplomacy Independent Journalism Fellowship for Eastern Partnership Countries
The fellowships will comprise:
- mentoring of the fellows so that prior to their fellowship visit they conduct research and interviews in their own countries that can then be used for reports to be printed/broadcast during their placement in the respective EU countries.
- linking of all the fellows whereby they would work together on a common series of articles/stories on common themes around democratisation and media reforms - based on the subject focus and complementary experience of the respective journalists.
- participation in a multi-country effort to strengthen standards on public service broadcasting, on control and sanctions against propaganda, and on common quality standards for independent news reporting
- a five-week stay at a host media outlet in the EU, including:
- visits to media regulatory authorities and independent media watchdogs/media institutes to research existing practice and standards in independent journalism and media regulation
- visits to NGOs, media professional associations, and human rights organizations/independent think-tanks working on democracy, media and human rights in Eastern Partner countries
- work/cooperation on news stories for the host media institution, resulting in printed articles and/or broadcast news stories
- work/cooperation on news stories for the fellow's own media outlet in her/his respective home country
- participation in roundtable event on independent media and the parallel challenges of journalism quality standards and Russian propaganda (to be organised by the mentor and/or host media organization)
- research by each fellow into selected aspects of journalism standards and regulations (agreed with the mentors in close consultation with New Diplomacy)
Mentoring
Each fellow will work with a mentor (a media expert based in the host country, either directly working for the hosting media organisation, or an expert able to liaise with the host organisation) for a four-month period of project co-operation and mentoring. Within this four-month period, the fellow will spend up to five weeks in the office of the hosting media organisation.
Fellows' outputs
Each fellow should produce/cooperate on:
- news stories for the host media institution, resulting in printed articles and/or broadcast news stories
- news stories from the host country for the fellow's own media outlet in her/his respective home country
- research by fellow into selected aspects of journalism standards and regulations (agreed with the mentors in close consultation with New Diplomacy)
The fellow should participate in:
- a multi-country effort to formulate standards on public service broadcasting, on control and sanctions against propaganda, and on common quality standards for independent news reporting
- a roundtable event on independent media and the parallel challenges of journalism quality standards and Russian propaganda (to be organised by the mentor and/or host media organisation)
Fellowship budget
For each fellow, New Diplomacy will cover international travel to the host country and back, and in addition up to a maximum of US$ 3,000 in expenses, covering local travel, visa costs where necessary, and subsistence and accommodation for the five weeks spent at the host organisation.
Each mentor (or host organisation if the mentor is provided by the host organisation) will receive US$ 1,800 in mentoring fees. Each host organisation will receive US$ 500 in overhead costs for hosting the fellow. The host organisation or mentor will also receive US$ 300 for the venue/equipment costs of organising the roundtable event.
Selection Procedure and eligibility
Selection will be based on the submission of a sound proposal reflecting the criteria set out in the call for proposals, and of a letter of recommendation from the hosting organisation.
To be eligible, fellowship applicants should be journalists from Eastern Partnership countries, or journalists working for independent or public service media outlets in the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine). Freelance journalists are also welcome to apply.
Fellows will be selected by the Fellowship Programme Committee composed of three voting members, including two of the co-founders of New Diplomacy (see below), and in a non-voting capacity the Chair of New Diplomacy.
The Fellowship Programme Committee members include:
Krzysztof Bobiński, President of Unia & Polska, a think-tank in Warsaw, and previously worked for the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). From 1976-2000, he was the Warsaw correspondent of the Financial Times, covering the period of martial law, the rise of Solidarity, and the fall of communism. He has also reported for the BBC, Washington Post, and European Voice, was later the publisher of Unia & Polska magazine, and was actively engaged in Poland’s negotiations to join the European Union. In 2013, President Bronislaw Komorowski awarded him the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Poland’s Rebirth for outstanding services in supporting democratic changes in Poland, for his reporting on the situation in Poland during martial law, and for his journalistic achievements. He is one of the contributing authors to European Foreign Policies: Does Europe Still Matter? (Europe Today, 2010), and is an Associated Editor of the Europe section of Europe’s World, published by Friends of Europe. He served as co-chair of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum in 2013 and again in 2015.
Jan Piekło, based in Poland and Ukraine, has been Executive Director of the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation (PAUCI) since 2005, where he has managed trans-border projects with Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia. From 1982 to 1988, he contributed to clandestine Solidarity print publications. As a journalist, he covered the Romanian revolution of 1989 and from 1991-1997 the wars in former Yugoslavia. He was editor of Tygodnik Powszechny, a leading weekly of the Polish anti-Communist opposition. From July 2000, he was editor of the online magazine FORUM, dedicated to Christian-Jewish relations and co-operation. He received the SDP (Polish Journalists Association) Award for “introducing into the Internet the important issues of dialogue and cooperation of people of different backgrounds, traditions and value systems".
About New Diplomacy
NEW DIPLOMACY was launched in 2015 to address the policy challenges facing global and regional policymakers in the eastern and southern neighbourhoods of the European Union, not least the insecurity in the post-Soviet space and the crises of democracy and instability in the Middle East.
NEW DIPLOMACY focuses on security policy, diplomacy, and media standards, including raising the quality and accuracy of factual information available to policymakers and the wider public.
NEW DIPLOMACY’s activities will include:
- international projects on media, diplomacy, and security;
- policy analysis and advice on the challenges facing policymakers and the public throughout Europe, Eurasia, and the Middle East;
- international advocacy and engagement with other players in the fields of media and diplomacy.
NEW DIPLOMACY is a new initiative, launched in August 2015 by a group of policy analysts and media professionals, each with several decades’ experience leading projects in promoting EU integration and closer Euro-Atlantic relations, and in strengthening civil society in the post-Soviet space. The founder and Chair is Jeff Lovitt, formerly Executive Director of the PASOS network of independent think-tanks.
For more information, visit www.newdiplomacy.net
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