matviyishyn. iryna, you re a journalist, you re a producer. i know you work with some western media outlets, like npr from the us. and so you re a perfect person to ask whether you see a difference in the way the ukrainian media wants to tell this story, and how the western media wants to tell this story? hello, everyone, thank you for having me. i started working with npr a few weeks before the invasion, actually. i started working as a local producer. since i quit my regular job at ukraine world, and of course, i see the difference in how the stories are being adapted and, kind of, like, explained in a different way to western audiences, since not like ukraine could be a new topic to a lot of people who haven t been following it before. so we have to explain the reason of this invasion and maybe like to give some
Bodies wrapped in black tarp lie in a mass grave on the outskirts of Kyiv as Ukrainian troops assess the destruction after Russian troops withdrew from the area.
let s go west in ukraine to lviv and speak to the journalist iryna matviyishyn. iryna, you re a journalist, you re a producer. i know you work with some western media outlets, like npr from the us. and so you re a perfect person to ask whether you see a difference in the way the ukrainian media wants to tell this story, and how the western media wants to tell this story? hello, everyone, thank you for having me. i started working with npr a few weeks before the invasion, actually. i started working as a local producer. since i quit my regular job at ukraine world, and of course, i see the difference in how the stories are being adapted and, kind of, like, explained in a different way to western audiences, since not like ukraine could be
weeks before the invasion, actually. i started working as a local producer. since i quit my regularjob at ukraine world, and of course, i see the difference in how the stories are being adapted and, kind of, like, explained in a different way to western audiences, since not like ukraine could be a new topic to a lot of people who haven t been following it before. so we have to explain the reason of this invasion and maybe like to give some background and some human stories are really important right now. even those that might be, like, kind of obvious to ukrainians, they could be very interesting to a western audience and can explain things better, since human focus is always better