Ukrainian Media Project is a five-year program implemented by Internews to support and develop the Ukrainian media sector through activities that protect freedom of speech, improve the media enabling environment, create opportunities for new and innovative approaches by Ukrainian media outlets, and strengthen the capacity of media CSO leaders to effectively represent their constituencies.

Internews is seeking candidates for the position of Finance Manager

Internews` Ukraine Media Project (U-Media) supported by USAID invites media organizations to submit grant proposals to a small grants competition. Within the small grants competition Internews will consider project proposals with the maximum budgets of $10,000 for up to 6-month projects focusing on U-Media`s priority types of activities. Deadline for submission of proposals: 23:59 Kyiv time on 30 December, 2015.

Internews is seeking candidates for a position of an Assistant Grants Manager

GENERAL FUNCTION: Provides administrative support to Internews grants management, mainly financial and contractual procedures

Internews’ annual media consumption survey shows a dramatic drop in Ukrainians’ use of Russian media. The survey shows that Russian TV viewership shrank to 8% from 27% in 2014, and Russian internet use slid to 27% in 2015 from 44% in 2014. While lower consumption rates for Russian TV might be partially explained by the Ukrainian government’s initiative to ban transmissions of Russian TV signals within the country, internet access has not been restricted.

 «Інтерньюз» повідомляє про вакансію місцевого медіа-консультанта (Local Media Liaison) для роботи в новому 2-річному проекті з задоволення інформаційних потреб внутрішньо переміщених осіб (ВПО) зі сходу країни. Інтеньюз шукає досвідченого медіа-фахівця з глибоким знанням роботи ЗМІ національного та регіонального рівня та широким колом медіа-контактів. Медіа консультант надаватиме фахову технічну допомогу гуманітарним організаціям, місцевим урядам та громадам у подоланні гуманітарної катастрофи.

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Institute of Mass Information published its monitoring of journalists' right for the first half of 2015. Physical aggression against journalists in Ukraine started to decrease: for the first half of 2015 IMI experts registered 23 assaults against journalists in Ukraine, which is almost 11 times less than in the same period of 2014  (249 assaults), and by 1.5 times less than in the second half of 2014 (37 assaults).

Internews commissioned a qualitative research on implementation of media literacy course in secondary schools of Ukraine. The study held in March-April 2015, aimed surveying teachers and students at root level to understand barriers and prospective in applying media literacy course at practice.

Conducted in cooperation with European Research Association (ERA), the research revealed that media education in secondary schools is implemented through successful combination of efforts of Academy of Ukrainian Press that trained OIPE coordinators/teachers at its schools and the Institute for Social and Political Psychology of National Academy for Pedagogical Sciences that developed the national experiment for 80 schools of 10 oblasts of Ukraine.

For you attention, the recent weekly briefer for Ukrainian media sector developments over period of June 25 - July 1, 2015. You may subscribe for weekly briefers by sending request to [email protected].

U-Media gathered the most important news over week April 9-15, 2015 that influenced the media development and freedom of speech in Ukraine. If you want to receive the weekly updadtes regularly, please send us email to [email protected] with the request to be subscribed.