Segodnya
Segodnya(Russian:Сегодня,IPA:[sʲɪˈvodʲnʲə],lit.'Today') was aRussian-languageUkrainiantabloid newspaperfounded in 1997. The newspaper ceased printing in 2019.[1]
Affiliations
[edit]While run fromKyiv,it was linked toDonbaspolitical and business groups. Its holding company,Segodnya Multimedia Publishing Group,was owned byRinat Akhmetov'sUkraina Media Group.[2] The paper supported former Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovychforthe presidency in 2004.[citation needed]Since the "Orange Revolution",the newspaper has moderated its pro-Eastern[clarification needed]reporting under pressure from its ownjournalists.[citation needed]The last print edition was issued in 2019.[1]In July 2022, Akhmetov folded all his media business due to the entering into force of theanti-oligarch law.[3]
Segodnyawas a member of theUkrainian Association of Press Publishers.
Censorship
[edit]In 2011, the paper's journalists threatened to go on strike after Chief EditorIhor Guzhvawas controversially fired, and his replacement censored certain types of stories, and dictated to journalists how certain politicians and public figures should be covered. "Olena Hromnytskais trying to implement corruption schemes for publishing paid articles... and also to introduce censorship in the newspaper "the journalists' statement read. In particular, the statement said she ordered some stories removed from the website about Odesa MayorOleksiy Kostusevand presidential adviserHanna Herman.She also mandated favorable coverage of certain politicians and public figures, the journalists say.[4]The newspaper was even accused of publishing forged documents.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ab"BBC Monitoring – Essential Media Insight".monitoring.bbc.co.uk.Retrieved5 April2024.
- ^Akhmetov: Segodnya newspaper must become stronger,Kyiv Post(15 December 2011)
- ^"UkrainianAkhmetov hands media business over to government – statement".Interfax-Ukraine.11 July 2022.Retrieved24 February2023.
- ^"Trouble brews at Akhmetov's Segodnya daily - Dec. 15, 2011".KyivPost.December 15, 2011.
- ^"Who forged the signatures on a letter to the president from the residents of Honchar Street"? (Russian),Українська правда: Київ, 07.02.2012.
External links
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Media related toSegodnyaat Wikimedia Commons- (in Russian)Official website
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