Olena Prytula

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Olena Prytula
Притула Олена Юріївна
Born March 10, 1967 (1967-03-10) (age 41)
Circumstances
Notable credit(s) Ukrayinska Pravda co-founder (2000-present)

Olena Prytula (Ukrainian: Притула Олена Юріївна) (born March 10, 1967) is a Ukrainian journalist, the editor-in-chief of the Ukrayinska Pravda, a web site that focuses on news and political coverage in Ukraine.

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[edit] Early life

Prytula was born in Russia and educated as an engineer in Electroacoustics and Ultrasound at Odessa Polytechnic Institute.[1] Influenced by the dramatic social changes in the Soviet Union, Prytula quit her engineering career and became an independent journalist. She began her journalism career as a correspondent of UNIAR news agency, later working as a stringer for Reuters in Crimea, correspondent for Interfax Ukraine news agency in Kiev and Crimea.

[edit] Ukrayinska Pravda and Gongadze

In 2000, Prytula began work as one of the founders of Ukrayinska Pravda. The murder of the site's co-founder, journalist Georgiy R. Gongadze, who had openly protested against growing government censorship, has focused attention on freedom of speech issues in Ukraine.

Prytula is sometimes alluded to have been a mistress of married Gongadze.[2] She was the very same "friend" of Gongadze whose apartment he left just before he was last seen alive.[3] June 15, 2006 on trial she has witnessed that when Georgiy left her house, she saw through her window as some unknown persons took control over him. "He behaved as very obedient, though it was abnormal. Georgiy had such character that he should have reacted roughly and resisted," said Prytula.[4]

[edit] Recent career

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Prytula returned to Ukraine in 2004 after her fellowship year at Stanford, where she was a Lyle and Corrine Nelson International Journalism Fellow, studying Internet-based communications and new media technologies.

Soon after her return, Ukraine witnessed the Orange Revolution during which Prytula played a pivotal role in providing timely information to the public in an atmosphere of upheaval and press restrictions.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ I've something to live for! (Russian). N 77 (20456). Newspaper "Donbas" (2003-04-24).
  2. ^ Killing the Story: a Tom Mangold investigation. BBC Correspondent. 21 April 2002. Program transcript.
  3. ^ Gongadze case - Details on Gongadze’s disappear.
  4. ^ Prytula sow how Gongadze was stolen
  5. ^ Sixth John S. Knight Fellowships Reunion and Conference Speaker Biographies.

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