Natalia Bodnar

Education – Master of Journalism, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (2018). Experience in journalism – 9 years; she worked on the Channel 24 website from 2017 to June 2026. 

During this time she worked as a newsfeed editor, managing editor and head of the news department. She was deputy editor-in-chief and was responsible for content, SEO news, and materials and interviews on military and social topics. 

She was the author of the social and cultural projects "The Price of a Peaceful Sky", "Barricades of Dignity", "Famine and Pestilence: The Memory of Generations", "Ukrainian Christmas" and co-author of the SVOI project. 

She was a speaker at a lecture of the Media Development Foundation course "Analytics and Distribution" (2024). She completed the training "Physical and Digital Safety of Journalists during the War", organised by the OSCE, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech, the SBU, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting (2026). 

Since 2026 – a monitor of the National Preventive Mechanism, and I can take part in visits to places of deprivation of liberty in Ukraine for the purpose of protecting human rights on behalf of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.

She was awarded the "For Service and Valour" distinction, 3rd class, by order of the Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2023).