Daria Taradai
Senior lecturer
Contact
daria.taradai@ukma.edu.ua
Scientific profiles:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SuJcV2wAAAAJ&hl=en
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8324-6476
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57192062721
EDUCATION
2012 Ph.D. Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Department of Communication (The
topic of the PhD-thesis is Domestication of international conflicts in Ukrainian TV coverage:
overlapping between political and media discourses)
2008 M.A. (with Honors) in Journalism, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
2006 B.A. (with Honors) in Political Science, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 – 2007, December – Editor, Reporter, News Agency “Ukrainian News”2007, December – 2010, February – Journalist in the department of international news, “5 channel”
2008, January – till now Lecturer at the Mohyla School of Journalism, NaUKMA. The title of the course is «International Journalism»
2010, April – 2011, July; 2011, July – 2015, April – Correspondent/multimedia producer at the Ukrainian Section of BBC, Senior Producer at the Ukrainian Section of BBC, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015, April – October – Europe Hub reporter, BBC (internal attachment), London, UK
2017 – The co-editor of the online free course in Media Literacy (http://www.video.detector.media/special-projects/novynna-
gramotnist-i22)
2015, October – till now Senior Producer/Desk Editor at the Ukrainian Section of BBC, Kyiv, Ukraine
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
2015-2016 – “Comparative study of media framing of the conflict in Eastern
Ukraine”, researcher, a joint international project led by the Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
2018 – 2019 – “Journalism and information credibility: How do the news media handle sources and source criticism?”, researcher, a joint international project led by the Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
2022 – 2024 – No Rules Fighting: Telegram as the Game-Changer in the Media Landscape in Ukraine, researcher, a joint international project led by the Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
PUBLICATIONS
Springer, N., Nygren, G., Orlova, D., Taradai, D., & Andreas Widholm (2023) Sourcing
Dis/Information: How Swedish and Ukrainian Journalists Source, Verify, and Mediate Journalistic
Truth During the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict, Journalism Studies, 24:9, 1111-1130, DOI:
10.1080/1461670X.2023.2196586
Taradai, D. (2022). Oklar strategi i ukrainska mediers krigsbevakning in Källkritik och krig:
propaganda, desinformation och lögner. Av Ulrika Beck-Friis, Jonathan Lundqvist, Charlotte
Wagnsson, Andreas Widholm, Daria Taradai, Gunnar Nygren, Maria Nilsson, Anna-Lena Laurén,
Anne Lagercrantz. Kultur och medievetenskap, Medievetenskap, Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap, 125 p. Available at: https://mediestudier.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/kallkritik_och_krig_-_02_-_taradai.pdf
Springer, N., Nygren, G., Widholm, A., Orlova, D., & Taradai, D. (2022). Narrating “Their War” and “Our War”: The Patriotic Journalism Paradigm in the Context of Swedish and Ukrainian Conflict Coverage. Central European Journal of Communication, 15(2(31), 178-201.
Taradai, D. (2019). Who is Ukraine’s enemy: Narratives in the military communication regarding
the war in Donbas. Russian Journal of Communication, 11(2), 141–156.
DOI:10.1080/19409419.2019.1622196
Nygren, G., Glowacki, M., Hök, J., Kiria, I., Orlova, D., & Taradai, D. (2016). Journalism in the crossfire: Media coverage of the war in Ukraine in 2014. Journalism Studies, 19(7), 1059–1078.
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2016.1251332
Orlova, D., & Taradai, D. (2016). Facebook as an alternative public space: the use of
Facebook by Ukrainian journalists during the 2012 parliamentary election. Central European
Journal of Communication, 9 (1), 37–56.
Taradai, D. (2014). How news domestication may blur conflict: Coverage of the 2008 South
Ossetia War in Ukraine. Central European Journal of Communication, 7, (12), 67–81.