Daryna Shevchenko

Daryna Shevchenko is CEO of The Kyiv Independent and a partner at Jnomics media consultancy in Ukraine.
Daryna has over 12 years of experience as a media manager, journalist, editor, media trainer and media consultant with a focus on HR, fundraising, strategic and operational management. For six years Daryna worked as a news feed editor and journalist for Ukraine's leading English-language newspaper Kyiv Post. In 2013 she co-founded a media development NGO - Media Development Foundation (MDF) - and ran it for three years as an executive director. Within her MDF work she created Ukraine's biggest mentorship and exchange program, sending aspiring journalists for internships at newsrooms across the country. The program still works both nationally and internationally. She also worked as a head of the investigative journalism department at Ukraine's National TV channel ZIK and ran a nationwide project on investigative journalism development with the media NGO Regional Press Development ...