OREANDA-NEWS. August 2, 2011. Dmitriy Belyanskiy was appointed Director of Multimedia Development of Segodnya Multimedia (publishing holding of the SCM Group).

Dmitriy Belyanskiy was born in Donetsk in 1980 and graduated from Donetsk National University, Department of Philology. In 1999 he focused on political journalism, and in 2001-2003 he was a media manager of Street Traffic news service (ICTV correspondent network). In 2003-2005 he oversaw the startups of several national internet media. In 2006 Dmitriy was appointed Deputy Director of STB Marketing Department. In 2006-2007 he was the manager of Rosbalt-Ukraina news agency. In 2007 Dmitriy worked for the national magazine Profil as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director. In 2009-2010 he headed the news and analytical service of Inter TV channel.

The new position will help to create a convergent newsroom to produce content for all types of media. Segodnya Multimedia plans to strengthen interaction among various media operating under the holding's umbrella.

"Switch to multimedia is impossible without creating new journalistic standards and changing editorial principles. These will be done on a step-by-step basis and take into account the wishes of the team that produces newspaper No.1 in Ukraine. A profession will be a profession, but the editorial office should become modern and change the ways of content delivery," said of his appointment Dmitriy Belyanskiy.

CEO and Editorial Director of Segodnya Multimedia Alyona Gromnitskaya commented on the new appointment: "Given the unmatched competitive environment in the market we are ready to create many projects that are interesting and important for Segodnya Multimedia to capitalize the publishing house and make it an indisputable market leader in the long term."