Olga Yurkova

Olga Yurkova is the co-founder of StopFake.org, an independent Ukrainian organisation that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and misinformation in the media. Experienced editor with a demonstrated history of working in the media production industry. She is a lecturer at the Mohyla School of Journalism, National University of Kyiv, where she is currently pursuing her PhD. Yurkova has 15 years of experience in journalism having played different roles in the industry including media education and training, editor-in-chief, reporter, fact-checker and others. She headed the local multimedia newsroom in Ternopil city for six years, becoming the market leader during that time. She then ran the Donbas and Crimea department at the national multimedia newsroom Nova Informacia for three years. She has been working as a new media trainer since 2012. For fighting propaganda, Yurkova was included into the list of New Europe 100 and was named a TED Fellow in 2018.