About me
Iuliia Mendel, born in Ukraine's Kherson, bordering annexed Crimea, moved to Kyiv in 2003 to earn her PhD at Shevchenko University.
She started journalism as a newspaper copy editor in 2007. Next she moved to TV-channel ICTV where she climbed from editing to reporting. She interviewed celebrities, politicians for the primetime news of one of Ukraine’s top 3 broadcasters. In 2014, she was a Solidarity Academy Fellow.
Mendel researched social and political conflict, corporate wrongdoing. This led her to an investigative show at Espreso TV, where she led a team as producer, editor and anchor. She founded a free press NGO with support from foreign journalists and the America House.
In 2015, Mendel became a World Press Institute Fellow, a program providing immersion in top U.S. newsrooms.
Mendel joined 112.Ukraine channel - the information leader and then was recruited to the nation's largest channel, Inter.
Her work includes a Politico Europe article on corruption in Ukrainian education. She was producer of a VICE news documentary on Ukrainian veterans. Involved with women's issues, her piece in Forbes Ukraine showed business-women struggling in an unequal society.
Recently returned from Yale's THREAD program, she's headed to Washington to cover Conventions in the U.S.
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