Freelancer journalist and fixer Anna Vlasenko became a finalist of this year’s Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism in the nomination News Fixer Awards. 

She wrote a post about this on her Facebook. “To wake up to a message that [says that] I’ve become a finalist for the 2023 Kurt Schork Awards in international journalism in the News Fixer Award nomination. Thank you to all our speakers and incredible people who share their stories and help the international press show [how Ukraine lives],” Vlasenko says in the post. 

Anna reported from the east and south of Ukraine. Along with Dutch National Television EenVandaag, she worked on a documentary series, My Generation @ War. 

Note. Another Ukrainian reporter, Asami Terajima from Kyiv Independent, won the 2023 Kurt Schork Award (Local Reporter Award nomination).  

Kurt Schork Awards 

Kurt Eric Schork was an American reporter and war correspondent who died during a military ambush in Sierra Leone. He was working on a story for Reuters along with the journalists from Associated Press. Two other Reuters journalists have been wounded in the attack. 

The memorial fund and Kurt Schork Award were created to acknowledge the work of freelancer journalists and local reporters, “whose work is often poorly paid, mostly unsung and frequently fraught with danger” — and support them. The awards include two $ 5,000 prizes to support the winners’s work. 

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