Francesca Ebel, an undergraduate in the Department of Slavonic Studies (ab initio Russian and Ukrainian), has won the Hugh Cudlipp Student Journalism Award for her reporting on the war in听Ukraine.听
A joint initiative of the London Press Club and听Daily Mirror, the听award is given to a student who has made 鈥榓n outstanding contribution to journalism鈥� and explored 鈥榓n issue of public听interest or concern which exemplifies lucid and graphic communication鈥�. 听
In March 2015, Ebel travelled to Sloviansk and other government-controlled areas of east Ukraine to find out what was being done to support Ukrainians displaced by the war in Donbas. By听interviewing local volunteers, representatives from Western NGOs and the refugees themselves, she cast light on an evolving humanitarian crisis largely overlooked in mainstream media reports.
