Yurkova Olga

Olga YURKOVA is a journalist and a co-founder of StopFake.org, an independent Ukrainian organization that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and misinformation in the media. She teaches different audiences how propaganda works and how to identify fake news, consulting a range of organizations and public structures and collaborating with mainstream media as a journalist. She has been working as a new media trainer since 2012. Ms. Yurkova has 15 years of experience in journalism. She headed the local multimedia newsroom in Ternopil city for six years, becoming the market leader during that time. Later, she headed the Donbas and Crimea department at the national multimedia newsroom Nova Informacia for three years. For her efforts to fight propaganda, Ms. Yurkova was included into the list of New Europe 100 and was named a TED Fellow in 2018.