Yuliana Skibitska

Editor

I was born and raised in Zaporizhzhia and worked in journalism since 2012. I started my career at the local wired station Radio Try and the newspaper Mriya. In 2014, I moved to Kyiv and worked for the newspaper Segodnya, Hromadske TV, wrote for Ukrainska Pravda, Charitum, Liga.net, The Guardian, PenOpp, and others.

In 2019, I joined Babel as an editor, later became a deputy editor-in-chief at Zaborona, and then returned to Babel. In 2020, I won the Honour of the Profession award in the Constructive Journalism category.

Currently, I teach two courses for aspiring journalists at Kyiv Media School and collaborate with the History Unit project by n-ost.

Publications of the author

“Art always falls short of the reality of war.” Ukrainian artist Lesia Khomenko on violence and her journey from Kyiv to New York
Artist Lesia Khomenko is one of the key figures in contemporary Ukrainian art and a co-founder of the R.E.P. group, which emerged in response to a new political reality...
Ukrainian photographer Sasha Maslov used to shoot celebrities in New York, and now—the war in Ukraine. A portrait of a person who takes portraits
Nineteen years ago, a young photographer from Kharkiv, Sasha Maslov, arrived in New York to pursue his own American Dream. And it came true: Sasha photographed David Lynch and...
“Trust isn’t measured by budgets.” A short summary of the eighth episode of ''HERE&THERE'' podcast—a conversation about the non-Western world with Maria Tomak
In the new episode of the '‘HERE&THERE’' podcast, human rights defender Maria Tomak explains why Ukraine needs to rethink its approach to communicating with non-Western...
What’s happening to Ukraine’s wartime economy? Everything is better than it could have been. Ep.7 of “HERE&THERE” features economist Yurii Gaidai
More than four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s economy has weathered a profound shock to achieve a fragile stability. However, persistent military risks and...
“My job is to prevent time from erasing the evidence.” Dariia Martyniuk is a conservator at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We spoke with her about how to preserve memory
In the conservation laboratories of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , specialists dedicate themselves to preserving one of humanity’s most tragic historical records:...
“War is always a poison for democracy.” Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on human rights defense and justice that cannot exist without humanity
Oleksandra Matviichuk is 42 years old. She has been involved in human rights defense for twenty of those years. During the Euromaidan , the organization led by Matviichuk...
“Material has memory—and it will be evidence of the Russian Federation’s crimes against Ukraine.” Artist Zhanna Kadyrova on war as a reality that defines everything. An interview
Zhanna Kadyrova is one of the most prominent Ukrainian artists. In her works, she has frequently engaged with urban space, and since 2022, she has been speaking about and...
Herhel Clinic — a cosmetology clinic in Poland, founded by a Ukrainian couple. It is valued at $4 million. How the founders built it — interview
Alina and Danylo Herhel from Dnipro are a married couple and business partners. In 2013, they moved to Warsaw, where Alina began seeing clients as a cosmetologist in a private...

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