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Undergrad Francesca Ebel Wins at Guardian Student Media Awards

Francesca Ebel, an undergraduate in the Department of Slavonic Studies (ab initio Russian and听Ukrainian), has won听the runner-up award for student multimedia journalist of the year at the Guardian Student Media Awards.听

The Guardian highlighted the short documentary听Forgotten People, which was produced by Ebel and her colleagues Flora Murphy and Oleg Naumenko. Together they lead an independent reporting project focussing on contemporary Ukrainian and Russian affairs called .

In March 2015, Ebel and The Nose team 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 interviewing听local volunteers, representatives from Western NGOs and the refugees themselves, she cast light on an evolving humanitarian crisis largely overlooked in mainstream media reports.

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