Román Skrýpin (born 27 May 1973) is a Ukrainian media manager, journalist, television host, a chief of the Ukrainian independent media union.
Biography
He was born on 27 May 1973 in
Poltava
Poltava (, ; , ) is a city located on the Vorskla, Vorskla River in Central Ukraine, Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast as well as Poltava Raion within the oblast. It also hosts the administration of Po ...
,
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...
of the
Soviet Union
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. He is married and has a daughter. Before enrolling to the Kyiv University, Skrypin was a journalist-trainee for the
Poltava
Poltava (, ; , ) is a city located on the Vorskla, Vorskla River in Central Ukraine, Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast as well as Poltava Raion within the oblast. It also hosts the administration of Po ...
newspaper ''Komsomolets Poltavshchyny'' in 1990. While studying in the Institute of Journalism of Kyiv University in 1991–1997, Skrypin worked for number of newspapers and television studios and channels.
*1991–1992 – journalist for a newspaper " Ukrayina Moloda"
*1992–1993 – freelancer for "Hart" television studio
*1993–1995 – journalist for the Center of creative television
*1995–1996 - co-owner, journalist-producer for the private firm "Agency of producers"
Soon after the graduation, in 1996–1998 Skrypin worked as a reporter and chief – editor of a news block and hosting the program "Dobroho ranku, Ukrayina" on the state television channel UTN (today - Pershyi Natsionalnyi). Since September 1998, he has been working as an anchor–editor for a news program "Vikna. Press digest" on STB television channel. In January 1999, his program was renamed to "Vikna. At the midnight", while also he was hosting program and "Mediaclub". Due to the total political censorship on Ukrainian TV channels as far as on STB also, Skrypin had to leave in 2002.
In 2002 he joined the new radio-broadcasting project on internet led by Andriy Kulykov " Hromadske Radio".
During the parliamentary proceedings, which were dedicated to the situation of the freedom of speech in Ukraine, Skrypin had appeared with his colleague
Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko (, ; born 29 September 1976) is a Ukrainian former Manager (association football), football manager and Football player, player. Shevchenko is considered one of the greatest Striker (association football), strik ...
. He stated authoritatively about non-permissibility of the
censorship
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and brought an accusation against the existing President
Leonid Kuchma
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (, ; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine, serving from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. The only president of Ukraine to serve two terms, his presidency was marked by demo ...
. Skrypin accused him in being the one and the first who made such unbearable conditions, when the journalist can't work by specialty.
Skrypin is the co-author of the Channel 5 so-called "true news". He started to work from the very beginning until June 2006 as chief-editor and also as a television host of the summarized program "Chas". Skrypin resigned in June 2006 due to a reason of development absence and also because there was an absence of straight scheme of decision-making. Among other things, the new chief-editor was appointed without any discussions with Skrypin as that time chief-editor.
Starting on 14 August 2006 and until 31 January 2008 he worked as a media director, "RBC-Ukraine" inform agency (affiliate of the RBC Information Systems). After that Skrypin was a radio host of the "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL).
Starting on 19 January 2009, he became the author and the host of television program "Truth of Roman Skrypin" at TVi television channel. On 23 February he was elected as a chief of the Ukrainian Independent media union. There were 31 votes for his candidature among 57 delegates attended the 2nd congress of the Independent media union, which took place in the House of scientists,
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
,
Ukraine
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. On 2 April Roman Skrypin headed informational service of TVi and eventually became the vice editor-chief at "TVi" for
Yevgeniy Kiselyov
Yevgeny Alexeyevich Kiselyov (, ; born 15 June 1956) is a Russian television journalist. As the host of the NTV weekly news show ''Itogi'' in the 1990s, he became one of the nation's best known television journalists, criticizing government c ...
.
In September 2012 Skrypin got the idea to start an
internet television
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Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in ...
(29 April 2013) Many of them eventually joined Hromadske.TV.