Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and author specializing in conflict reporting and human rights. She is the founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab (PIJL), which promotes constructive discussion around complex social issues. After the full-scale Russian invasion, under Gumenyuk’s leadership PIJL co-founded The Reckoning Project — an initiative to document war crimes.
As a foreign news correspondent, she has reported from over 50 countries. Nataliya regularly writes for Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and The Atlantic, etc. Gumenyuk is the author of several documentaries and books, including The Lost Island: Tales From The Occupied Crimea (2020) and The Maidan Tahrir (2015) — on developments after the Arab Spring — as well as co-author of The Scariest Days of My Life: The Dispatches of The Reckoning Project (2023).
Gumenyuk was the co-founder and head of the independent Ukrainian news outlet Hromadske TV. She is a member of the Board of the Center For Civil Liberties.
Nataliya is the recipient of the 2022 Media Freedom Award, 2022 NED Democracy Award, the 2023 Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize, and 2024 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Awards.