RPDI Annual Report (2020) | Page 36

why do journalists need legal support ?

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Maryana Sych , participant of Laboratory of exposures 2.0 , a new project from BIHUS . info
were many situations when the investigation subjects were reacting to my materials with the phrase « well done , it can ’ t be denied ». All this is the result of a pre-publication screening of stories from lawyers of RPDI .»
Kateryna Shevchenko , a journalist at Zaporizskyy tsentr rozsliduvan ( Zaporizhzhia center of investigations )
first two big texts published with the financial support of RPDI were a real challenge for me . I have never dealt with such an amount of information and a legal risk test was new to me . There I should especially thank Oksana Maksymenyuk for such fascinating professionalism and scrupulous approach . It was difficult , but we succeeded .»
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