Roman Skrypin

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Román Skrýpin – Ukrainian media-manager, famous journalist, TV anchor, Chief of the Ukrainian Independent media union.

He was born on 27 May 1973 in Poltava, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He is married and has a daughter.

Roman graduated from Kiev University, The institute of Journalism.(1991–1997)

1990 – journalist – trainee “Komsomolets Poltavshyny” newspaper

1991-1992 – journalist, “Ukraina moloda” newspaper

1992-1993 – freelancer, “Gart” studio, Ukrainian television

1993-1995 – journalist, Center of the creative television

1995-1996 - co-owner, journalist- producer – private firm “Agency of producers”

1996-1998 – reporter, chief – editor of the news block, news anchor “Dobrogo ranku, Ukrayina”, UTN, Ukrainian television.

Since September 1998, Roman has been working as the anchor – editor of the “Vikna. Press digest” TV program, STB TV channel.

Since January, 1999 - he has been working as chief and anchor of the “Vikna. At the midnight” and “Mediaclub”, TV programs, STB channel. Due to the total political censorship on Ukrainian TV channels as far as on STB also, Roman had to left in 2002.

Since 2002 – journalist of the “Hromads'ke radio”

During the parliamentary proceedings, which were dedicated to the situation of the freedom of speech in Ukraine, Roman had appeared with his colleague Andriy Shevchenko. Roman state authoritatively about impermissibility of the censorship and brought an accusation against then existing (1994–2005) president Leonid Kuchma, that he is the one and the first who made such unbearable conditions, when the journalist can’t work by specialty.

Skrypin is the co-author of the “5 channel” - the channel of the true news, creation idea. He has been started to work from the very beginning until June 2006, as chief-editor and also as a TV anchor of the summarize program “Time”. Roman resigned in June 2006 due to the reason of development absence and also because there was an absence of straight scheme of decision-making. Among other things, the new chief-editor was appointed without any discussions with Skrypin as that time chief-editor.

Starting 14 August 2006 till 31 January 2008 he has been working as Media director, “RBC Ukraine” inform agency.

For this moment, Roman is a radio-anchor of the "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL).

Starting 19 January 2009,- he is the author and the anchor of "Truth of Roman Skrypin" (ukr: "Pravda Romana Skrypina") TV-program, "TVi" TV-channel (Ukraine).

On 23 February he was elected as a Chief of the Ukrainian Independent media union. There were 31 votes for his candidature among 57 delegates attended the 2nd congress of the Independent media union, which took place in the House of scientists, Kyiv, Ukraine.

On 2 April Roman Skrypin headed informational service of "TVi" TV-channel (Ukraine). He became the vice of the "TVi" editor in chief Yevgeniy Kiselyov.

Skrypin in September 2012 got the idea to start an internet television channel.[1] This idea eventually became Hromadske.TV.[1] After the April 2013 ownership dispute at TVi 31 journalists resigned from TVi on 29 April 2013, they believed as TVi employees they could not anymore "guarantee our audience to provide objective and unbiased information".[2] Many of them eventually joined Hromadske.TV.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (Ukrainian) «Громадське ТБ»: «Все гірше, ніж ви думаєте, але надія є» "Public TV": "It is worse than you think, but there is hope", Телекритика (14/06/2013)
  2. ↑ (Ukrainian) Найєм оголосив про старт нового проекту колишніх журналістів ТВі Nayem announced the launch of a new project of former journalists TBi, Ukrayinska Pravda (30 April 2013)
    З ТВі звільняється 31 найкращий журналіст TVi freed 31 best journalists, Ukrayinska Pravda (29 April 2013)

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