the 5th national mediafest-2010

Date: 19-21 November 2010
Problem: Recently Ukraine has enjoyed rapid development of youth and student media. Unfortunately mostly they are small and unprofessional projects that do not exist for a long time. The results of the polls show that a large percentage of young people would like to be engaged in journalism or create their own media. But often these dreams can never come true due to the lack of knowledge and experience. At the same time many existing youth editions lacks professionalism and efficient use of resources. Most youth newspapers are based on the enthusiasm. Faculties of journalism offer a course theory, while student press gives practical lessons of journalism.

Another point is that most youth media-projects suffer from censorship or become dependent on certain forces.



The purpose of the event: to unite the youth media community, to improve skills and motivation of young journalists, to exchange experiences in solving journalistic problems and to improve the quality of youth mass media in Ukraine. Youth Media Festival is an annual event that brings together young journalists for joint development of media space. Today's actual topic is also the development of new media, in particular - student new media.

Newspapers of the festival's participants will be original standard for other issues of their region. Members of the youth editorial offices will be more aware of the legal basis of the journalists. During the festival an exchange of information between youth papers of Ukraine will be improved, the famous journalists are to answer the urgent questions of youth. Our festival is a great kick for the active development of youth and student media across the country

Members: 200 selected youth media editors from all over Ukraine, journalists and beginners who want to create quality information products, approx. 50 specially invited guests, journalists from CIS countries.

Format: three day festival is held near Kyiv and it includes master-classes of well-known and successful journalists, specialized teachers and experts on new media, media lawyers. In the program there are also competition in youth newspapers, educational game-simulation and creating the map of Ukrainian youth media. Workshops and trainings will will be divided into three streams so that each participant could choose the most interesting one for him/her.

The main topics of the workshops: the state of Ukrainian journalism, how are the new media transforming society, universal journalist, problems of youth media, media law, news journalism, censorship, investigative journalism, political journalism, social journalism, search and verification of information, the practice of press conferences, press-work services, startup of journalistic projects, technical literacy of a journalist, international internship programs for journalists.

Within three days of the festival the game "SIMulation" ( a role play, created by Artem Mihaylyuk, Yelena Kayumova (Union of Initivative Youth in 2007) will be hels. The game valuable as all its members appear in different situations in a safe environment. In this way they form the necessary skills and attitudes needed for successful young journalist. It's fair game. And very important is that unlike many other games this game is educational. As a result people go (out of the festival) with the understanding, knowledge and practically gained skills. The game is relevant, well thought out and designed with the needs and status of current student media in Ukraine.

History: Previously among the speakers of the fest there were Yegor Sobolev - Coordinator at the investigative journalism bureau "Svidomo", Jed Sunden - owner of the media holding «KP media», Julia Zhmakina - producing ex-editor at "Time. Results "on Channel 5, Vakhtang Kipiani - ex-chief of the magazine" Focus ", project "Great Ukrainians", Andrei Makarenko - TV presenter at TVi, Andriy Shevchenko - MP, former chief editor of Channel 5, Vitaly Portnikov - chief at TVi, Alex Kapusta - director of "Standard", Mykhailyna Skorik - Head of the Kyiv Independent Media Union, Sergey Danilenko - editor of the first and largest Ukrainian Internet portal of civic journalism "Highway", Artem Mykhailiuk - an expert on student self-government, business coach, social coach, student leader, Anton Lirnyk - " Comedy Club Ukraine ", and others.