ADAMI Focus with Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian Writer and Nobel Prize-Winner

Courage in the Media - How Journalists Can Improve Coverage of Cultural Diversity

Moderated by Editor in Chief of Ukrainian Public TV

Yuri Makarov

Covering minority issues is a sensitive task. The histories of different nationalities and ethnic groups in the Eastern Partnership region are still a thematic battlefield, too often including histories of deportations, genocides, or ethnocides. How can journalists and broadcasters today cover minority issues without lapsing into old folkloric stereotypes or even creating new ones? How can we empower people to tell their own stories instead of telling stories about them?

Svetlana Alexievich is an investigative journalist, oral historian and writer from Belarus. In 2015, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Svetlana’s work is mostly based on collections of interviews with witnesses of various events in Soviet history such as the Second World War, the war with Afghanistan and the Chernobyl disaster. Her most famous works include Chernobyl Prayer (1997) and The Unwomanly Face of War (1985).

Yuri Makarov is a Ukrainian journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker. He is Editor in Chief of the Ukrainian Public Broadcasting Company NSTU, and the Chairman of the Committee for the National Taras Shevchenko Award. Yuri Makarov was a member of the jury for the ADAMI Media Prize in 2015.

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The event will be held in Russian with English simultaneous translation. Participants will have the chance to ask questions during the event!