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 in-depth reportage to concise messages. We have a distinctly Ukrainian perspective on the world. We strive to study the problem we are writing about thoroughly and to illustrate what is happening, rather than simply presenting different points of view. Read more about our principles here (in Ukrainian).

Awards and honors

Sigma Award 2025, winner for the project "Carousel of emotions. Manipulation Level of Ukrainian Telegram Channels".

National Award "Honor of the Profession 2025", the nominee for the project "Alright, alert, we've arrived. Why are we sitting here?"

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

National Award "Honor of the Profession 2024", the nominee for the project "Come if you can! Veterans with disabilities find it extremely difficult to get around Ukrainian cities."

National Award "Honor of the Profession 2023", the winner in the special nomination for the project "NUCLEAR TERROR. How Russia took the nuclear plant and the people of Enerhodar hostage."

Ukrainian National Investigative Journalism Contest, the nominee for the investigation "Bombs, Death and a Downed Pilot. Three Days of Air Raids on Chernihiv in March 2022".

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, nominee 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

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