“The laureate of the George Gongadze-2025 Prize was the photographer, operator and military correspondent of Reuters Ivan Lyubish-Kirdi. The award ceremony traditionally took place in Kyiv on May 21 – the birthday of George Gongadze. For a short list of nominees on a distinction in 2025, the Capitula of the George Gongadze Prize was also elected editor -in -chief and co -founder of The Kyiv Independent Olga Rudenko, Head of the Ukrainian Truth Investigation Department, Mikhail Tkach. Olga Rudenko was also a 2024 award finalist. Ivan Lyubish-Kirdi is a photographer, operator and military correspondent Reuters. During a business trip to Kramatorsk in August 2024 he was wounded through Russian shelling, was in a coma for several months and is now a recovery. In 2015, he won the annual German TV and Cinema Operators Award Deutscher Kamerapreis in the nomination “Best News from the Waring Area” for the TV movie “Escape from Ilovaysk”, shot for the German TV channel ARD. The George Gongadze Prize is a reward for independent journalists, founded in 2019 by Ukrainian PEN in partnership with the Association of KMBS graduates, Kyiv-Mohyla business school and Ukrainian Pravda. Under the terms of the premium, only the Capitula members have the right to nominate journalists for its acquisition, and then to determine the laureate, which receives a statuette and a cash remuneration of 100 thousand UAH. Vakhtang Kipiani (2019), Pavel Kazarin (2020), Myroslav Barchuk (2021), Mstislav Chernov and Yevgeny Maloletka (2022), Bogdan Logvinenko (2023), Tatiana Troshchinsk (2024) became laureates in the previous years. In 2022, the specialist was also posthumously received by photojournalist Max Levin.”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
He used to collaborate with TV channel “Infanty Time” (Radio Liberty project with the participation of Voice of America).
The award ceremony traditionally took place in Kyiv on May 21 – the birthday of George Gongadze.
Olga Rudenko was also a 2024 award finalist.
Ivan Lyubish-Kirdi is a photographer, operator and military correspondent Reuters. During a business trip to Kramatorsk in August 2024 he was wounded through Russian shelling, was in a coma for several months and is now a recovery.
The George Gongadze Prize is a reward for independent journalists, founded in 2019 by Ukrainian PEN in partnership with the Association of KMBS graduates, Kyiv-Mohyla business school and Ukrainian Pravda.
Under the terms of the premium, only the Capitula members have the right to nominate journalists for its acquisition, and then to determine the laureate, which receives a statuette and a cash remuneration of 100 thousand UAH.
Vakhtang Kipiani (2019), Pavel Kazarin (2020), Myroslav Barchuk (2021), Mstislav Chernov and Yevgeny Maloletka (2022), Bogdan Logvinenko (2023), Tatiana Troshchinsk (2024) became laureates in the previous years.
In 2022, the specialist was also posthumously received by photojournalist Max Levin.