Oleh K.
Journalist · Radio-Journalist · Producer · Fixer · Line producer · Translator/Interpretor
Based in Kyiv, Ukraine
About
I am Oleh Klymchuk. I received a degree in teaching English and German. But after I went through an intensive course in radio journalism at the BBC WS in London, 1995, I switched to journalism. I was a freelance reporter for the Ukrainian section of the BBC WS after my return to Ukraine. Later I worked for some Ukrainian TV channels in the positions of news editor and project director. During my work for «Новий канал» TV channel, I was the editor-in-chief of the Special Report weekly programme. We produced, filmed, and broadcast a 26-minute feature, covering one leading story of the week in Ukraine.
Occasionally, my foreign colleagues referred to me to help them as a fixer, producer or interpreter. Since 2004, I have co-produced about 10 documentaries and many news stories for Finnish YLE, Estonian, and American production companies.
I was a DW freelancer during 2013-23, contributing to the Ukrainian and Russian newsrooms on politics and economics (links can be provided on request).
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine developed into an all-out war in 2022, we started in 2024 with my friend, a cameraman, our YouTube channel. We have made by now 14 short personal stories of common Ukrainians who became soldiers. There are some volunteer soldiers from abroad among them, too. Last autumn, we made a documentary named Na Uhodah (In Search of a Safer Land). It explains many reasons why Ukrainians have been leaving their homeland so often during the last 150 years. This war is not an exception, unfortunately...
Recently, as a freelance writer and live studio host, I have closely cooperated with Hromadske Radio, an independent Ukrainian outlet. We discuss economics, security issues in Ukraine, and energy sector transformation.
I completed the Educating Ukrainian Media Managers (EUMM) programme last spring, organized by the Fojo Media Institute (Linnaeus University, Sweden) and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia.
Languages
- Ukrainian
- English
- German
- Russian
- Polish
Equipment
- Car
- Lights
- Laptop
- Camera
- Sound Equipment
- Sound Mixing Studio
Fields
- Documentary
- News
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