Román Skrýpin

Ukrainian media-manager, journalist, television host, Chief of the Ukrainian Independent Media Union, Founder of Hromadske.TV. Skrypin is the co-author of the Channel 5 so-called “true news”. In 2009, he became the author and the host of television program “Truth of Roman Skrypin” at TVi television channel. In 2012 Skrypin decided to start an internet television channel. This idea eventually became Hromadske.TV. After the April 2013 ownership dispute at TVi 31 journalists resigned from TVi, as they believed that they could no longer “guarantee our audience to provide objective and unbiased information”. Many of them eventually joined Hromadske.TV.