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31 January 2008 11:14

Winners Announced in the Second Journalists’ Competition for the Best Coverage of the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine

January 30, 2008, the results were announced of the Second Journalists’ Competition for the Best Media Coverage of the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, organized by Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund.

170 newspaper articles in 40 regional newspapers, 18 documentaries by nine district and oblast TV studios, 18 radio shows on 6 TV & Radio companies, and 7 web-articles were submitted to the contest.

The works have been considered by a committee of film director Viktor Deryuhyn, script writer Andriy Danylchenko, PhD in History Valentyna Borysenko, journalists Maryna Fialko and Yaroslav Muzychenko, and expert with Ukraine 3000 Fund’s Cultural Programs Dept. Olesia Stasiuk.

After a lengthy discussion, the following winners in the established nominations were selected through voting:

Publications in Periodicals:  no first prize winners. Second prize: Iryna Reva (Polyn) (Dnepr vecherny), articles “Hammer against Sickle” and “1932. Stalin Was Afraid to Lose Ukraine” and Hryhory Khvostenko (Sumshchyna, department head) with five articles submitted to the contest. Third prize: Oleksandr Kramarenko (Hryvna plus, Luhansk), articles “Genocide ‘33 in the Contemporary Ukrainian Dimension” and “Cornerstone of Our Eurointegration”, and Oleksandr Hrinka (Sumy), articles “Unknown Sumy” and “Inhuman Famine” in Panorama.

Internet Publications: Iryna Mahrytska, Head of the Luhansk Oblast Office of the Holodomor Researvh Association in Ukraine, articles “Political Nation and Memory” and “Fate of a Luhansk Country Girl as an Indictment against Bolshevism.”

TV and Video: First prize - Bohdana Trofimiuk (Rivne Oblast State TV & Radio Company), films No Right to Forget: Memory under the Sign of Cross and No Right to Forget: Holodomor ’33 (camera – Dmytro Shamyshyn, editor – Denys Dmytriyev). Second prize – not awarded. Third prize – Nataliya Sharpylo (Kharkiv Oblas tState TV & Radio Company), special projects Day of Sorrow, Manmade Famine 1932-1933: It Happened, and Tetiana Izotova (Lvivska zhinka Radio Organization), film Holodomor: History of a Tragedy.

Radio Shows: First prize – Liudmyla Mazanova (Buryn Radio Channel), Edidence show. Second prize – Snizhana Bondarenko (Rudana Kryvy Rih Community TV & Radio Company), Bells of Memory show. Third prize – Liudmyla Ostrovska (Ternopil Oblast State TV & Radio Company), Let’s Think Together show.

Editors of the newspapers that have been systematically covering the Holodomor theme throughout the year, received special mention: Peremoha (Krasnopillia, Sumy oblast), Zhyttia Bilokurakivshchiny (Bilokurakine, Luhansk oblast), Trudova slava (Novotroitske, Kherson oblast), Mayak (Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv oblast), Zoria (Ovruch, Zhytomyr oblast), Visti Romrnshchyny (Romny, Sumy oblast), and Kolos (Stara Syniava, Khmelnytsky oblast).

The awards ceremony is scheduled for February 2008.

The Second Journalists’ Competition for the Best Media Coverage of the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine was held throughout year 2007. In 2003, the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund held the first journalists’ competition, receiving rather broad feedback.