Due to threats and harassment, pressure and a ban on working at homeland, journalists around the world are faced with a forced-choice: to stop working or to continue media activity in exile. After 2014, the editorial offices of the occupied districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Crimea found themselves in exile. And in 2020, we witnessed a new wave of refugee journalists from Belarus. Is journalism worth the effort in exile? What is its value? What professional, ethical, and practical issues do editorial offices in exile have to deal with? How to gain the trust of a new audience and not lose the main audience in the abandoned areas? And can the efforts of émigré journalists change the situation in the country and the world for the better? We learn the experience of media in the post-soviet countries and Latin America.
Speakers:
- Pavlo Sverdlov, Chief Editor, Euroradio, Belarus (based in Warsaw, Poland);
- Cindy Regidor, Confidencial, Nicaragua;
- Aliaksei Dzikavitski, deputy director of Belsat TV, Belarus (based in Warsaw, Poland).
Moderated by Andriy Dikhtyarenko, editor-in-Chief of the News Service of UA:PBC (Public Broadcasting), editor-in-chief of the online media "Realnaya Gazeta", Chairperson of the NGO "Frontyr".
