Oleg Khomenok

Oleg Khomenok, media trainer and consultant, Global Investigative Journalists Network (GIJN) Board of Directors Member, Regional Press Development Institute (RPDI) Chair of the Board, International Fact-Checking Network expert, member of the Commission on Journalism Ethics, member of Preparatory Committee of European Press Prize, has over 30 years of experience in journalism, media education, GR, managing investigative reporting and media support projects in the post-Soviet media environment. Mr. Khomenok has eight years of experience working as a reporter investigating political campaigns and ethnic minority issues in Crimea. Between 1992 and 1998, he was a reporter and editor with local Crimean newspapers and worked for several newspapers and news agencies. On 1994-1997 he worked as head of Crimean Parliament press-office. He spent five years as regional correspondent for the European Institute for the Media, and as a media expert participated in preparing a special report about the media situation in Ukraine by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. On 1997-2002 Mr.Khomenok was managing IREX ProMedia Crimean IPC, USAID funded project. On 2002-2007 he worked as Media Trainer and Media Advisor for IREX U-Media project managing office and overseeing implementation of the USAID funded project of Media support in Ukraine. Coordinating SCOOP activities in Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus since 2003, Mr. Khomenok has extensive experience consulting and networking reporters as well as with developing, coordinating and reporting on more than 150 national and cross-border investigative reporting projects between Ukrainian and other European reporters. As a member of GIJN Board of Directors, Mr. Khomenok is responsible for extension of GIJN throughout the post-Soviet countries with special focus on the Caucasus and Central Asia. Over the past two decades he has conducted above a hundred of trainings in investigative journalism techniques, business reporting, election coverage, OSINT, information verification and fact-checking, AI use in the media in Ukraine, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Israel, Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Khomenok is the author of manuals on investigative journalism, media management, election coverage, economic journalism, and press history in Ukrainian, Russian, English and Kazakh languages.