Meeting with US military correspondent Keith Richburg

4.4.2022

Teachers and students of the Department of Journalism and Publishing took part in a training session with US military correspondent Keith Richburg.

On March 29, 2022, on the Zoom platform, teachers and students of the Department of Journalism and Publishing took part in an information security training for Ukrainian journalists conducted by Keith Richburg, a correspondent for The Washington Post and director of the Center for Journalism and Media at the University of Hong Kong.

Russia’s war against Ukraine is of great concern to Keith Richburg, who has been actively monitoring the events in our country since 2014, attending Donbas Media Forums almost every year. Communicating physical and digital security during martial law is the main component / mission of a journalist.

However, according to this journalist, in the conditions of war – “speed is the enemy of journalism”. Before publishing information, you need to verify the facts, be sure of the authenticity of the source, confirm / feed the news with other facts, check it on a fake, using European experience. In the following conversation, Mr. Keith made it clear that the fake news spread by the Russian media misinforms society. For example, instead of real photos of Mariupol, the Russians showed photos of the utterly destroyed Grozny, which is about 27 years old, writing off the responsibility of the Armed Forces. Photographs of Russian volunteers 3 years ago and a photo of a wounded child, which, according to fact-checkers, was taken in Syria, were also spread on the Internet. A special place was given to the journalistic narrative and personal safety of journalists.

At the end of the training, all participants had the opportunity to ask questions, which Keith Richburg competently answered, using his own experience.

According to the Department of Journalism and Publishing