成人快手

It鈥檚 Friday 25 February 2022 and I鈥檓 in our newsroom in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine. I'm standing in the gallery and I'm closing it down.

We鈥檝e moved our broadcasting to the western city of Lviv, for security reasons, but part of the team have stayed in the capital. I decided to stay, too, to secure our coverage and to take care of the remaining team.

I鈥檇 had to close our brand-new newsroom down three months after launching on November 21, 2021.

It was just me and an engineer asking me if we should shut down the server. We鈥檇 never shut down the servers in the newsroom before. I say yes and break down in tears for the first time since the invasion.

We had been working with 成人快手 Media Action and Deutsche Welle Akademie on this newsroom for Suspilne (Public), Ukraine鈥檚 public broadcaster, for more than three years.

We'd moved our radio, TV, digital and web news teams together. For the first time ever in history we had got all these teams together in this new newsroom and that brand new gallery, next to each other.

The newsroom was designed by a prominent group of Ukrainian designers and architects. And you can imagine me standing there in the middle of it all, covering very expensive pieces of equipment in the gallery with cardboard boxes.

One thing that was sad - but funny in a way - was that we鈥檇 been dreaming of windows. If you鈥檝e worked in a newsroom, you know they normally have no windows, no daylight. So, when we were designing this newsroom, we were dreaming of having windows.

But now a window in Ukraine is a curse and I was thinking what happens if something blows up in front of the windows, how can we keep these expensive devices and technology safe? All I could do was cover things with cardboard boxes and close the door. I didn't know when we would come back to this newsroom.

We went to work in the field, in occupied Kherson, in the battlefields of Donbas, in the battles for Kharkiv and Bucha. Many of our colleagues stayed there and survived the occupation and the massacre. And we really fought hard, and we earned our return in May 2022 when we renewed our broadcasting from this historical building where Ukrainian TV started. We were able to do this because we were working together.

By 2022, 成人快手 Media Action was helping us transform our newsroom, transform the whole workflow, create news gathering teams and coordinate our operations across the whole country. We were ready for the challenge, not physically, not emotionally of course, but logistically, technologically to work as a one-man band in different parts of the country. Because the full-scale invasion came from all possible directions across the border, and we were the only broadcaster who had teams across the whole country.

This is exactly why this partnership and why this work matters. And it matters not only for us, as a public broadcaster, it matters for public interest journalism because in crisis, it's crystal clear why you should be doing public interest journalism. It鈥檚 so important for our audience. For our listeners from occupied Bucha, occupied Kherson, who reached out to us and told us that when the electricity was out, when the internet was down, the only way for them to hear that Ukraine still exists was on the radio.

And we were there for them, to support them even when the Russians were entering Ukrainian towns, when they were shutting everything down, telling people on the streets from their cars that Ukraine has fallen, that Kyiv is down, Odesa is down, Kyiv doesn鈥檛 exist as a Ukrainian city. But Ukrainians could hear the news and could hear the truth through their radios.

This is why you should continue to invest in radio. It really, it really works, that's our story!