Nina Kuriata-Stasiv

Work history

Ukraine Editor

Tortoise Media Ltd

London

05.2022 - Current

Covered Russian war in Ukraine, as well as international topics related to the security in the wider region, including Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Poland and Moldova.
Produced well-written and accurate features of analysis to deadlines, collaborating with editors, designers and photographers to meet publishing schedule and adapting writing style to suit different media formats, including broadcast scripts and online articles.
Took exclusive comments and first-hand sources information from Ukrainian political and military leadership, interviewing key experts to gather insights and perspectives, as well as regularly attending related events in think tanks like Chatham House to grow the expertise and professional network.
Pitched and proposed story ideas to editorial teams for consideration and approval, contributing to editorial meetings, offering insights and suggestions for story development.
Utilised social media platforms to disseminate news stories and engage with audience.
Reviewed colleagues' journalism pieces relating to Ukraine, Russia, the war, providing factchecking and editing for providing journalism integrity.

Team Lead; Editorial Lead

Thomson Reuters Foundation

London, Kyiv

05.2020 - 03.2023

Expertly led teams of four consultants to successfully achieve productivity KPIs, improve media partners' productivity and meet targets in coverage, audience, Social media and monetisation.
Mentored and coached numerous local independent media leaders and teams in order to improve their editorial management and increase their content quality; upscilled team members and media partners by planning and delivering training workshops.
Reported on team performance to higher leadership in London, proactively offering action for areas of improvement and new activities. Wrote numerous project reports and editorial reviews.
Mediated team decision-making and problem-solving for peaceful resolutions of any issues between media partners, project team and higher leadership.

The Head of the BBC Ukrainian service

BBC

Kyiv

07.2011 - 09.2019

Led team of 33 journalists, correspondents and multimedia producers (having started with 13 journalists in both Kyiv and London) providing editorial leadership, financial responsibility, recruitment and other HR activities and continuous line management, collating with BBC Editorial guidelines, Fair selection and Constructive feedback principles.
Being responsible for the dynamic and up-to-date editorial agenda, created and executed impactful multimedia content strategies through precise editorial planning and management, launching new products and formats (including BBC Ukrainian daily News TV bulletin in 2018), leading to longer term development, digital audience growth in 10 times during 8 years (more below) and improving users' engagement.
Developed the editorial team creating new posts, recruiting new employees, developing training programmes (peer-to-peer and trainer-led, inside the service and at the wider BBC), provided personal development reviews (PDR), delivering new KPIs and setting up new team and personal objectives.
Delivering the high quality of the digital output, maintained team's familiarity with BBC Editorial guidelines, editorial production cycle and BBC Ukrainian's stylebook, provided high-level editorial judgement in accordance with BBC Editorial Guidelines, GDPR and Ukrainian media law, and responded to users' complaints and other requests.
Comunicated with other language services within Europe Hub and wider BBC, including other language services, Europe desk, GVU, BBC World, BBC Radio4 etc., sharing breaking news and high-level analysis in numerous formats across all BBC platforms. Promoted BBC Ukrainian's exclusive content across all services and increased direct collaboration between its own correspondents and interbational desks and World Duty Editors.
Collaborating with Growth and Marketing teams, demonstrated comprehensive leader's understanding to maximise content reach, elaborating and delivering new effective strategies of longer term development and monitoring the analytics, having increased bbc.ua website audience numbers in more than 10 times within 8 years.
Being responsible for team members' Health and Safety, as well as for compliance with Ukrainian labour law, in collaboration with administrative team launched health insurance programme and provided mental health sessions for the staff during the Euromaidan revolution in 2014.
•Managing the Service budget, collaborated with administrative and finance departments in Kyiv and London to maintain it at the appropriate level, managing under- and overspends timely and effectively.
Represented the BBC Ukrainian service at multiple senior level national and international professional forums and conferences, talking about BBC standards, supporting the BBC brand and reputation and making it one of the most impactful media in Ukraine.

Section Editor

Vlast Deneg (Power of Money) Magazine

Kyiv

03.2010 - 06.2011

Was fully responsible for one section of the printed weekly magazine, writing and editing features and stories for four magazine pages, covering the most important issues introducing fresh angles and producing compelling articles for publication in print and on the website.
Skilfully developed relevant news stories, maintaining a high level of content quality, making interviews with high-profiled politicians and civil servants to enrich stories with unique details and insights and generating comprehensive, factual content.
Developed high-level knowledge of Ukrainan and international politics to give comprehensive coverage of Viktor Yanukovich's presidency and his cabinet politics, as well as opposition activity, for readers.
Applied understanding of public opinion, social media and traditional media use to create engaging and attention-grabbing stories, writing them in accordance with prescribed editorial style and format standards.
Collaborated with designers, protographers and editorial teams to enhance visual elements, proofread written content to maintain high editorial standardsand to meet tight deadlines and publishing schedules.
Pitched and proposed story ideas to editorial teams for consideration and approval, contributing to editorial meetings, offering insights and suggestions for story development.

Editor-in-Chief

Seychas newspaper, LigaBusinesInform agency

Kyiv

02.2008 - 02.2010

Re-launched Seychas media outlet in order to transform it from the Digital Daily format to the dynamic, up-to-date multimedia web outlet, creating new media development and content production strategy, implementing diverse text and multimedia formats and increasing user engagement and the audience.
Re-structured and developed the team of 15, explaining new targets and KPIs, recruiting new team members, providing the training on Internet Journalism and News Production, as well as explaining basic principles of Journalism ethics and Ukrainian media law.
In collaboration with marketing and development team, tailored content to priorities and preferences of target reader group demographic and monitored web analytics to understand audience's engagement and to use this data to improve storytelling techniques, resulting in significal audience growth and meeting and exceeding the targets.
Represented Seychas media and LigaBusinesInform information agency at the numerous media forums, TV talk shows, media training (as a trainer and a guest speaker), ensuring high profile editorial values and perfect reputation of the media.

Project Editor

LigaBusinessInform Information Agency

Kyiv

10.2005 - 02.2008

Was fully responsible for two Real Time Choice projects in a row, covering the parliamentary elections in 2005 and 2006, writing bulk of political news, as well as analysis, interviews and opinions, related to the topic and meeting the deadlines.
Produced compelling content in full adherence to editorial style guides and tones of voice, with high level of editorial accuracy and impartiality, tailoring it to priorities and preferences of target audience.
Sought out primary sources and conducted original interviews, maintaining relationships with leading experts in the field to have the most accurate information, as well as reporting from the parliamentary sessions and political events and round tables.
Collaborated with photographers to enhance visual elements of news stories
Demonstrated creative approach when producing banners, graphic design elements and other types of content in collaboration with designers and othert editors.
In collaboration with marketing team, monitored analytics to increase audience engagement and to reach and exceed the targets.

Social and Political Programmes Editor

Radio Kyiv 98FM

Kyiv

07.2004 - 09.2005

Being fully responsible for 5 different daily programmes, as well as for the whole daily non-entertaining content, reviewed scripts and made changes to improve wording and flow or interest levels, producing high quality programmes and on-air shows.
Maintained consistent and cohesive style across various audio projects, editing and crafting scripts and raw audio content, enhancing product quality and audience engagement.
Evaluated quality of work and implemented corrective actions to maintain creative vision and professionalism, remaining a strong professional in constantly changing environment, smoothly handling challenging situations and difficult individuals to achieve objectives.
Hepled journalists and programme authors to find appropriate stories and ideas for programming to engage target audiences, worked with technical teams to gain the best result.

Summary

Overview

Work history

Ukraine Editor

Team Lead; Editorial Lead

The Head of the BBC Ukrainian service

Section Editor

Editor-in-Chief

Project Editor

Social and Political Programmes Editor

Education

Master of Arts - Journalism

Doctor of Philosophy - Microbiology

Diploma of Higher Education - Microbiology

Bachelor of Science - Biology

Skills

Languages

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