Type of site | News |
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Available in | English |
Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine |
Owner | Adnan Kivan, operating as Businessgroup LLC |
Editor | Bohdan Nahaylo, Chief Editor |
CEO | Luc Chénier |
URL | www |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Not required |
Launched | October 18, 1995[1][2] |
Current status | News media |
ISSN | 1563-6429 |
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The Kyiv Post is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.[3] In November 2021, following an editorial disagreement, the Kyiv Post fired all of its reporters, many of whom founded and joined the Kyiv Independent. On November 11, Luc Chénier returned to Kyiv Post as its CEO to rebuild with his first hire being Bohdan Nahaylo as its Chief Editor. Within 2 months of taking over, Kyiv Post had doubled its readership with a clear emphasis on being Ukraine’s Global Voice and by focusing on the USA, Canadian, UK, and European Union Markets. By year 3, Kyiv Post now has a 97% readership outside of Ukraine with an combines websites and social media viewership of more than 6 million viewers per month. In October 2023, Kyiv Post was the first news organisations in Ukraine to be rated a perfect 100% content transparency and accuracy rating for journalism strandards according to global rating platform News Guard. (others with a perfect 100% were: The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.)