About us

Texty.org.ua is an independent media founded by Anatoliy Bondarenko and Roman Kulchynsky in 2010.

We create data journalism projects and work in traditional journalistic genres ranging from lengthy reportage to short messages. We have a Ukrainian view of the world. We try to study the problem we are writing about as much as possible and to show what is happening, not simply publishing different points of view. Read more about our principles here (in Ukrainian).

Awards and honors

European Press Prize 2024 – the Innovation Award nominee for the project "The Stolen Treasures".

Sigma Awards 2020, winner in the "Best interactive news web page" category for the project "Fresh Disinfo from Russia" and Fake Cracker.

National Award "High Standards of Journalism 2019", winner in the "Sustainable, high-quality media project."

SND Digital 2018, bronze medal for an interactive map of illegal amber mining.

Prix Europa 2018, finalist in the category "Online projects" for an interactive map of illegal amber mining.

Data Journalism Awards 2017: Yaryna Serkez was the winner in the category "Best Young Data Journalist" for her portfolio of projects, most of which were made for Texty.org.ua.

Data Journalism Awards 2016, finalist in the category "Best interactive news web page" for the game "Money, square meters, two cars."

Data Journalism Awards 2012, second place for the project "Public Procurement".

Our Team

Editor-in-Chief: Roman Kulchynsky (fb)

Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Anatoliy Bondarenko (twi)

Data Journalism

Head of Data Journalism Section: Yevhenia Drozdova (twi)

Chief Analyst / Data Journalist: Vlad Herasymenko (fb)

Art Director: Nadja Kelm (fb)

Data Journalist / Analyst: Oleh Hebura (fb)

Traditional Journalism

Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Inna Gadzynska (fb)

Reporter: Andriy Garasym (fb)

Reporter: Valeriia Pavlenko (fb)

Journalist: Volodymyr Lytvynov (fb)

News Feed Editor: Natalia Petrynska (fb)

Russian Disinformation Studies

Acting Head of Section: Serhii Mikhalkov (fb)

Machine Text Analysis

NLP Researcher: Nataliia Romanyshyn (twi)

Development

Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Development: Halyna Pastukh (fb)

Event / Community Manager: Dmytro Kolesnyk (twi)

Social Media

Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, Viber: Oleksandra Tymoshenko (fb)

Instagram: Tetyana Kolisnyk (inst)

Copy Editor

Larysa Minchenko

Contact us

(+380) 67 498 4865

texty.org.ua@gmail.com

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TEXTY.org.ua/

twitter: https://twitter.com/TextyOrgUa

telegram: https://t.me/textyorgua

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/texty.org.ua/

Texty.org.ua is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet)