Eastern Media Hub

The Idea of foundation

For over 9 years, our team at the NGO «Makes Sense» has been working in the conditions of military conflict and creating unique content - objective and professional news, frontline reports, videos and photos, multimedia reports, investigations, podcasts.

We understand better than anyone that today, amidst the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine and the information war, it is important to receive verified information from the scene. We do everything possible to ensure that as many of our colleagues from Ukraine and around the world, as well as readers, can get truthful facts.

NGO «Makes sense» has created two Hubs of Eastern Journalism which are named "Eastern Media Hub”. There are located in in Sloviansk (Donetsk region) and in the city of Chernivtsi (Chernivtsi region). We created them because of the fight against disinformation, Russian narratives, and to counter fake information.

Sloviansk

The Sloviansk hub was established on January 1, 2022. On February 19, 2022 an event was held where all independent media from Eastern Ukraine gathered.
The Sloviansk hub is a workplace for national and foreign journalists who make news and materials in Eastern of Ukraine. International partners have the opportunity to improve the speed of publication of materials about the situation in Donbas, as well as increase their quantity. 
In the hub every journalist can use video and photo equipment for shooting videos and creating photographs, recording podcasts, video editing, and podcast production.

Chernivtsi

The Eastern Media Hub in Chernivtsi is a meeting place for national and international journalists, public figures. We conduct online and offline events with journalist colleagues from various cities of Ukraine, also with international partners report on the latest news from Eastern Ukraine, and work together against Russian propaganda and disinformation.