Reporting on Ukraine During War: The View Two Years On
About the Event
A discussion with Olga Rudenko, chief editor of award-winning English-language Ukrainian news site The Kyiv Independent, about the challenges of building a new media outlet during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, covering the war, and investigating corruption in the Ukrainian government at the same time.Speaker: Olga Rudenko, chief editor of the Kyiv Independent
Moderator: Matthew Kupfer, investigative reporter with Voice of America and former news editor of the Kyiv Post
About the Speakers
Olga Rudenko is the chief editor of the Kyiv Independent, an award-winning media start-up launched in November 2021 by the former editorial team of the Kyiv Post. Olga is the former deputy chief editor of the Kyiv Post. She has written for global publications, and was a fellow at the Chicago Booth School of Business in 2021. She was featured on the cover of Time magazine in May 2022 as one of the publication’s Next Generation Leaders, and won the Women of Europe award in the “Woman in Action” category in December 2022.
Matthew Kupfer '12 is an investigative reporter at Voice of America. He has reported for The San Francisco Standard, the Kyiv Post, The Moscow Times and more. He formerly served as the Kyiv Post's news editor and as Central Asia editor at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. He earned his bachelor's degree at Brandeis University and his master's at Harvard University.