Kyiv Post
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Type of site
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News |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Mohammad Zahoor, operating as Public Media |
| Slogan(s) | Independence. Community. Trust. |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 13,211 (April 2014[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Not required |
| Launched | October 18, 1995 |
| Current status | News media |
| ISSN | 1563-6429 |
The Kyiv Post is Ukraine's oldest English language newspaper.
American Jed Sunden founded the Kyiv Post weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. The newspaper, which went online in 2002, serves Ukrainian and expatriate readers with a general interest mix of political, business and entertainment coverage. The staff is a team of mainly Ukrainian journalists, numbering 23 editorial team members as of December 2016, including 17 Ukrainians.
Historically, the editorial policy has supported democracy, Western integration and free markets for Ukraine. It has published numerous investigative stories, including coverage of the 2000 murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze, in which ex-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma is a prime suspect; the 2004 Orange Revolution, in which a massive public uprising blocked Viktor Yanukovych from taking power as president after the rigged presidential election of November 26, 2004; the 2013-14 EuroMaidan Revolution that overthrew Yanukovych as president; the Russian invasion of Crimea; the Kremlin-instigated war in Ukraine's eastern Donbas; and Oligarch Watch, a series of articles from September to December 2016 about Ukraine's top eight oligarchs.
The Kyiv Post has had two owners in its existence, Sunden and Mohammad Zahoor. Sunden's KP Media sold the newspaper to British citizen Zahoor on July 28, 2009. Zahoor owns the ISTIL Group and is a native of Pakistan and a former steel mill owner in Donetsk. Zahoor publishes the newspaper through his Public Media company. In an interview with the Kyiv Post published on August 6, 2009, Zahoor pledged to revive the newspaper and adhere to its tradition of editorial independence.
Sunden created the newspaper in the early years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, starting with $8,000 in capital, three computers and a staff of seven people working from a small flat in Kiev. The first 16-page issue was put out by an editorial staff of two people. Sunden built the newspaper into a profitable enterprise, one that served the needs of the expatriate community that then regarded Ukraine as a potential hotspot for investment. During Sunden's tenure, he held to libertarian and anti-Communist views on the editorial and opinion pages, but established the business model of editorial independence on the news pages. He said the policy is good for business and news. Sunden was controversial for allowing paid "massage" advertisements from women engaging in prostitution.
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