The Day’s journalist honored as the Benefactor of the Week

Popular platform Big Idea (biggggidea.com), which helps people looking for financial support for their projects, symbolically recognized The Day’s society affairs editor Maria Semenchenko as the Benefactor of the Week. She donated money via Spilnokosht, a crowd funding website, to several projects. Her latest target was the Public Radio, now doing its test run. The Big Idea’s journalist Katia Sierhatskova did an interview with her.

When asked why she chose the Public Radio as a target for her support, Semenchenko said: “I would never do it if I did not like what they were doing. I myself work for The Day, a publication that focuses on important topics, never engaging in the hunt for gory stories or celebrity scandals. Few Ukrainian media can offer in-depth analysis of what is happening around. It seems to me that the Public Radio is another media that creates public media space for serious topics and makes them interesting and accessible to the audience. Also, I think that radio has been unfairly written off. It is currently undergoing a reincarnation. The Public Radio is an online radio, allowing one to download their programs and listen to them offline. Radio is in a new stage of its development currently, and the Public Radio is in the forefront of this process, so it can create new trends.”

The complete interview with Semenchenko about the need to support interesting projects and journalists’ civic responsibility can be found at biggggidea.com/practices/1257.