Dariya Orlova

EDUCATION

2008-2013: Ph.D. in Mass Communications, a joint program of the Autonomous University of
Barcelona, Spain, and National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine, dissertation
topic: “Representation of ‘Europe’ in the Mediatized Discourse of Ukrainian Political Elites”.
2006-2008: MA (with Honors): Political Science and European Studies, National University
of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine.
2002-2006: BA (with Honors): Political Science, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
Academy, Ukraine.

Professional experience
– Assistant Professor, Mohyla School of Journalism, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine (September 2023 – present)
– Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA (September 2022 – June 2023)
– Senior Lecturer, Mohyla School of Journalism, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine (January 2010 – September 2023)
– Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, USA (March – June 2016)
– Editor of the European Journalism Observatory website, Ukrainian language version (2012-2015)
– Staff writer at the Kyiv Post, a Ukrainian weekly newspaper run in the English language (2007-2008)

Professional and academic activities

– Coordinator of the Worlds of Journalism Study in Ukraine
– Consultant in evaluation projects of media and communications programs
– Researcher in international academic research projects
– Trainer of Journalism Teacher’s Academy Program
– Member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
– Secretary of the ECREA Ukraine Task Force
– Associate Editor (2023-2025), Central European Journal of Communication

Research and consultancy
• Researcher, “UNESCO Journalists’ Safety Indicators. Ukraine (2022)”, Human Rights
Platform for UNESCO (2023)
• Senior local media expert, “Media Project in Ukraine (MPU) Midterm Performance
Evaluation”, Cloudburst for USAID (2021)
• Researcher, “Media Literacy Sector Mapping in Georgia, Latvia, Moldova and Ukraine”,
Ukrainian Media and Communication Institute for Baltic Centre for Media Excellence (2021)
• Local research expert, “Evaluation of Media Literacy Projects in Europe and Eurasia”, Social Impact for the US Department of State (2020-2021)
• Co-investigator, “Peripheral Audiences and State Security: A Study of Risks and Benefits Associated with Media Use among Border Populations in Ukraine”, a project led by Dr. Joanna Szostek (University of Glasgow, UK). Funder: The British Academy (2019-2020)
• Data analyst, “Monitoring of media coverage of 2020 local electoral process in Ukraine”, Council of Europe (2020)
• Researcher, “A Study of European Investigative Media Operating Models”, Media Development Foundation (2019)
• Researcher, “Journalism and information credibility: how do the news media handle sources and source criticism?”, a joint international project led by the Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Funder: Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB), Sweden (2018-2019)
• Researcher, Ukraine chapter, Freedom House research project “Freedom on the Net” (2019, 2018, 2017)
• Local media expert, OTI/Ukraine Media Cluster Evaluation, Ukraine Confidence Building Initiative (UCBI), USAID (September-October 2018)
• Lead researcher, “Media Consumption and Assessment of Social and Political Processes in Ukraine by the Residents of Eastern Regions (government-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts), Detector Media NGO (2018)
• Lead researcher, “Information Consumption, Needs and Views of Residents of Eastern Ukraine (Government-controlled Parts of Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts)”, Detector Media NGO (2017)

• Researcher, “Awareness and Attitudes toward the Problem of Disinformation and Propaganda in Mass Media”, StopFake (2017)
• Researcher, “The Computational Propaganda” Project (Ukraine case study), Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (2017)
• Media consultant, Ukraine Confidence Building Initiative (UCBI), USAID (March-April 2017)
• Lead researcher, “The state of journalism education in Ukraine”, Detector Media NGO (2016)
• Lead researcher, “The Coverage of the Conflict in the East by the Ukrainian Media: Investigating the Values, Guidelines, and Practices of the Journalists”, Detector Media NGO (2016)
• Senior Local Media Specialist, “The Ukraine Media Project Performance Evaluation, 2011- 2015” (USAID-funded), Social Impact for USAID (2015)
• Researcher, “Comparative study of media framing of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine”, a joint international project led by the Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden (2015)

Publications
• Springer, N., Nygren, G., Orlova, D., Taradai, D., & Widholm, A. (2023). Sourcing
Dis/Information: How Swedish and Ukrainian Journalists Source, Verify, and Mediate Journalistic Truth During the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict. Journalism Studies, 1-20.
• Szostek, J., & Orlova, D. (2023). Free speech versus defence of the nation? The media as sources of national insecurity in Ukraine. European Security, 1-25.
• Horbyk, R., Prymachenko, Y., & Orlova, D. (2023). The transformation of propaganda: The continuities and discontinuities of information operations, from Soviet to Russian active measures. Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 5(1), 68-94.
• Horbyk, R., & Orlova, D. (2022). Transmedia storytelling and memetic warfare: Ukraine’s wartime public diplomacy. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 1-4.
• 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.
• Szostek, J., & Orlova, D. (2022). Understandings of democracy and “good citizenship” in Ukraine: utopia for the people, participation in politics not required. Post-Soviet Affairs, 38(6), 479-496.

• Orlova, D., Budivska, H. (2021). Ukraine: Lack of self-regulation in an oligarch-
driven media landscape. In The Global Handbook of Media Accountability (pp. 193-202).
• Orlova, D. (2020). Oscillating Between Alienation and Frustrated Engagement: The Study of Donbas Residents’ Response to Conflicting Narratives in the Media. In Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities (pp. 117-130). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
• Budivska, H., Orlova, D. (2018). Ukrainian Journalism after the Euromaidan: Renegotiating Professionalism in Conditions of Democratization and Conflict. In Civil Society in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine: From Revolution to Consolidation. (pp.269-296). Ibidem Verlag.
• Orlova, D. (2018). Natalya Ryabinska. Ukraine’s Post-Communist Mass Media: Between Capture and Commercialization. East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 5(2), 177-180.
• Fengler, S., Kreutler, M., Alku, M., Barlovac, B., Bastian, M., Bodrunova, S. S., Orlova, D. … & Kus, M. (2018). The Ukraine conflict and the European media: A comparative study of newspapers in 13 European countries. Journalism, 1464884918774311.
• Budivska, H., Orlova, D. (2017). Between Professionalism and Activism: Ukrainian Journalism after the Euromaidan. Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, (3), 137-156.
• Orlova, D., Tsetsura, K. (2017). “Ukraine: Open for U”: A promotional Campaign and Nation Re-branding After the Euromaidan. In Public Relations Case Studies from Around the World (pp. 95-110). Peter Lang.
• Orlova, D. (2017). ‘Europe’ as a Normative Model in the Mediatised Discourse of Ukrainian Political Elites. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(2), 222-241.
• Orlova, D. (2016). Ukrainian media after the EuroMaidan: in search of independence and professional identity. Publizistik, 61(4), 441-461.
• 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, 1-20.
• Orlova, D. (2016). EuroMaidan: Mediated Protests, Rituals and Nation-in-the-Making. In Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach (pp. 207-229). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
• 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(16), 37-56.

Policy papers and reports
• Orlova, D., Dutsyk, D., Budivska, H., Sribnyi, M. (2021). Media Literacy Sector Mapping in
Georgia, Latvia, Moldova and Ukraine. Ukraine. Country Report. Available at https://www.jta.com.ua/wp-
content/uploads/2022/08/ML_Ukraine_Country_Report_2021.pdf.
• Parusinski, J., Oliinyk, I., Orlova, D. (2019). Looking for a Path Forward: a Study of European Investigative Media Operating Models. Available at http://reportmediadevelopment.thelede.media.
• Orlova, D., Shutov, R. (2018). Media Consumption and Assessment of Social and Political Processes in Ukraine by the Residents of Eastern Regions (Government-controlled Areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts). Available in Ukrainian at https://detector.media/doc/images/news/archive/2016/136753/DM_Media_consumption_u
kr_WEB-compressed.pdf.
• Zhdanova, M., Orlova, D. (2017). Computational Propaganda in Ukraine: Caught Between External Threats and Internal Challenges. Working Paper No. 2017.9. Oxford Internet Institute. Oxford University. Available at http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2017/06/Comprop-Ukraine.pdf.
• Orlova, D., Shutov, R. (2017). Information Consumption, Needs and Views of Residents of Eastern Ukraine (Government-controlled Areas of Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts). Available in Ukrainian at http://osvita.mediasapiens.ua/content/images2/DM_draft_East-web.pdf.
• Orlova, D. (2016). The Coverage of the Conflict in the East by the Ukrainian Media: Investigating the Values, Guidelines, and Practices of the Journalists”. Available at http://osvita.mediasapiens.ua/content/files/dm_zvit_redpraktika_engl-new.pdf
• Orlova, D., Taradai D. (2016). Ukraina: Att bevaka ”vårt krig” – dilemman och utmaningar för ukrainsk journalistik in Ukraina och informationskriget – journalistik mellan ideal och självcensur (pp. 61-96) (in Swedish). Available at https://www.msb.se/RibData/Filer/pdf/28052.pdf#page=17.
• Tsetsura, K., Palyvoda, L., Orlova, D. (2016). Performance Evaluation of the Ukrainian Media Project, 2011-2015. Social Impact for USAID. Available at http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00KZCX.pdf.

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