Wajahat S. Khan,
producer NBC News, anchor AAJ News
“The same threat which could pose problems for all other private sectors: ownership. If the same man or woman is telling you where to get your news… then you’re looking at a system that isn’t very different from the worst after-effects of oligarchy. (Ukraine needs to utilize) its young people and their untapped potential, and people converting their disinterest to interest.
Vitaliy Leybin,
chief editor, Russian Reporter Magazine
“Politics and the planned process of demoralization of the journalistic community. I think Ukrainian media should start to produce media of the same quality as the West. But it will be hard because of market problems.”
Anastasiia Sidielnik,
journalist
“Mentality, because many people who run Ukrainian media still have very Soviet ideas and don’t want to accept any innovation. We need to find a way to persuade old fashioned media to change something.”
Olena Gromnytska,
general director, Ukrainian Media Development Institute
“Ukraine is without a lot of quality media. We have to level up our journalistic society and bring up the quality of journalism consumers. We’ve got to improve the quality of content… and to produce content without state influence.”
Yulia Hudoshnik,
journalism student
“Maintaining quality journalism is the biggest challenge now. We have media producing some things about scandals and criminal things. We need more important, quality stories to be reported.”
