Annotation
Interview is not just one of many genres of journalism but a fundamental tool of journalistic work. The skills of conducting interviews, gathering information, and analyzing data are used by journalists every day.
We will improve these skills in this course. Our goal is to learn to work with information as comprehensively as possible: to facilitate accurate answers to the questions asked; to be able to speak anywhere, with anyone, under any circumstances; to write texts that will be memorable to readers; to create video content that is interesting to the world. In other words, we will perfect your art of interview.
The course is conducted FULLY ONLINE due to logistic reasons. During the course, three main practical assignments will be assessed. They are different types of interviews that students prepare independently. The process includes the following stages: finding a topic and a subject, preparing for the conversation, recording it, creating the text, and promoting it.
About the Course Teacher:
The course instructor is Sonya Koshkina (real name Kseniia Vasylenko), a Ukrainian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the online media Lb.ua (since 2009). She has over 20 years of experience in journalism.
She is also an assistant professor at the Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Since spring 2022, she has been giving lectures at Charles University in Prague and Masaryk University in Brno.
She is the author of a documentary investigation book about the events of the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine titled Maidan: The Untold Story (2015). Her second book, Ukraine: Personal Testimonies and the Geopolitical Background of the Russo-Ukrainian War was co-authored with the historian Radomyr Mokryk, with a foreword by Petra Prochazkova. It was published in the Czech Republic in 2023.