On the first day, participants met investigative journalists from Nikcenter, a centre for investigative journalism, Olesia Boreiko and Andriy Popov. Participants immersed themselves in investigative methodology, learning how to form hypotheses and analyse real cases of corruption exposure in southern Ukraine.
“We expose abuses at the local government level… and since the start of the full-scale war, we have focused not only on exposing corruption, but also on investigating war crimes,” said Olesia Boreiko.
We learned that Nikcenter has already organised more than 200 investigations, using programming and AI to analyse huge amounts of data, including public procurement. We also learned about searching for anomalies in the work of contractor companies through the ‘big four’ (ProZorro, DREAM, QlikView, YouControl) and ways to track business connections with officials.
At the end of the training day, Svitlana Stryla from Prestupnosti.NET shared powerful insights into the peculiarities of working in online media during wartime, interacting with audiences, searching for information, and using AI as an assistant in journalism.
The event is organised by the Mykolaiv Crisis Media Centre with the support of the Ukrainian-Danish Youth House in Mykolaiv.
