Yevhen Fedchenko
Ph. D, Associate professor
CONTACT
www.linkedin.com/in/yevhenfedchenko
@yevhenfedchenko
ACADEMIA RESEARCH PROFILE LINKS
https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?hl=uk&user=RE6V2OIAAAAJ
https://independent.academia.edu/YevhenFedchenko
CURRENT POSITION
2014 – present: Co-founder/Chief Editor, StopFake.org
2024 – present: Associate professor, Mohyla School of Journalism
2005 – 2024: Director of Mohyla School of Journalism at National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Associate professor
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2022-2023: Visiting scholar at Center for Media at Risk, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
2008 – 2016: Head of PhD Program in Mass Communication at KMA, co-director of the Academic cooperation program of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
2010-2011: Fulbright research fellow at University of Southern California (Annenberg school for journalism and communication)
2003 -2005: Assistant professor at KMA – Mohyla School of Journalism and Department of Political Science
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
March 2020- now: leading StopFake efforts as Facebook third-party fact-checking partner
November 2021-now: member of the NDI-led coalition ‘Supporting de-occupation of Crimea through fighting disinformation’
March, 2015- 2018: Member of the Board, Hromadske TV
February, 2015 – 2016: member of Expert Working Group “Russian Language Infosphere Project” (European Endowment for Democracy, Brussels, Belgium)
2015-2017, 2020-now: Member of the Board, PRESSзвание – Professional Competition for Journalists Writing on Business
April, 2014 – 2015: Board Member, Internews Ukraine
2011-2013: Board Member, Ukrainian Fulbright Society
August, 2011 – June 2015: Co-founder and Director of Digital Media for Universities (DMU) Program – curriculum development program for faculty members from leading Ukrainian universities on social media, online journalism and convergence
2011-2013: Member, Ukrainian National Commission on Media Ethics(Ukrainian National Media Regulator)
2009: Head of the Module !Access to information” for the Program “Strengthening Parliaments and Democracies” (Westminster Foundation for Democracy)
2008-2009: Member of the selection committee, Investigative journalism competition (Institute for the development of regional media, Kyiv, Ukraine)
2008-2009: Member, Editorial Board, National television company of Ukraine (NTKU)
2007 – June, 2015: Co-founder and Director of Digital future of journalism (DFJ) Program – post-diploma educational program for journalists on new media, online journalism and convergence
2007-2008: Head of Taskforce on launching PhD program in Mass Communication at KMA (TEMPUS)
2004-2005: Media expert for the Center for Media Reform and moderator for Mediaclub – monthly media industry discussions
2002 – 2020: Trainings on reporting skills, TV news production, news standards, documentary production and factual programming for Ukrainian and foreign NGOs(OSCE, DFID, PRESS NOW) and leading Ukrainian national and regional media organizations
COURSES TAUGHT
• Graduate: International News (2003-now)
• Doctoral colloquium on Teaching Media and Communications (2022- now)
• Doctoral research course on Media and Emerging Technologies (2021-2022)
• Graduate: Factual programming on TV (2005-2017)
• Graduate: TV news production (co-teach, 2003-2010)
• Undergraduate: Introduction to International Relations (2003-2005)
• Professional: Digital Future of Journalism/Digital media for Universities (curriculum development, 2007-2013)
ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Domestication of International conflicts in Ukrainian TV coverage: overlapping between political and media discourses/Taradai, Daria; Fedchenko, Yevhen, dir.; Luzon Fernandez, Virginia, dir; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Departament de Communicacio Audiovisual I Publicitat, 257 P, 2013
WORKING WITH FOREIGN STUDENTS
2013: Andrew Nynka (University of Maryland, USA), Academic Adviser
2018: Sarah Manney(Stanford University, USA), Academic Adviser
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020-now IFCN (International fact-checking organisation) membership
2017-2022: EJTA Association
2012: Member of Online News Association, USA
2010: Member of National Communication Association, USA
2006 – 2007: Co-director of Ohio University / Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Linkage Program (US Department of State grant)
Fall, 2005 and Spring 2007: Visiting professor at Ohio University (Athens, OH, USA)
2007: Member of Broadcast Education Association, USA
2006: Co-organizer and instructor at International Summer School on Documentary Production (organized by Ohio University and Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
2006: Member of the Board of HESP Summer School on Media Literacy for the university faculty from Eastern and Central Europe and former Soviet Union (Open Society Institute).
JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE
2014 – present: Co-founder/Chief Editor of the website StopFake.org
2002-2004: columnist for Delovaya Nedelya Newspaper. Writes on international politics
1998 -2002: STB Television, Head of Foreign news desk, producer and host of Vikna u Svit (Windows into the World) weekly TV show on world news and politics
1996-1998: STB Television, foreign news correspondent for Vikna, daily news program
1994-1996: Eastern Economist Weekly(first English-language media in Ukraine) – correspondent
CREATIVE OUTPUTS. MEDIA COMMENTARIES
Regular contributions to Kyiv Post, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty(RFE/RL), BBC(World
and Ukrainian service), BBC Television, National Public Radio, Public Radio International,
Chicago Public Radio, Radio Canada International, Le Figaro, CBC, Mashable, WNYC
EDUCATION
2004: Ph.D. in international relations from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv, Ukraine)
1998: MA in political science from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
1996: BA in political science from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Digital journalism and innovations, journalism education in transitional societies, news
standards, propaganda and weaponization of information, coverage of international politics
in media, fact-checking and verification.