This article builds on biographical interviews with public service broadcasting journalists, who have earlier worked for mainstream private media in Kyiv, Ukraine, to argue that journalists, according to their own understandings, engage in several different forms of self-censorship that do not necessarily have a direct relationship to external censorship. I identify and analyse three different forms of self-censorship – pragmatic, ethical and affective – that are simultaneously present in the same professional community of Ukrainian television journalists at a single historical moment, despite the fact that they operate in accordance with distinct logics. Taken together, they offer an empirical basis to challenge scholarly accounts that understand self-censorship as a singular phenomenon. The article proposes some initial analytical parameters and questions for a more nuanced analysis of the empirical heterogeneity of self-censorship.

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乌克兰的自我审查：区分电视新闻的沉默

本文建立在对公共服务广播记者的传记采访基础上，这些记者早些时候曾在乌克兰基辅的主流私营媒体工作，认为记者根据他们自己的理解，参与了几种不同形式的自我审查，这些自我审查不一定有与外部审查的直接关系。我识别并分析了三种不同形式的自我审查——务实的、道德的和情感的——在同一历史时刻同时出现在乌克兰电视记者的同一个专业社区中，尽管它们按照不同的逻辑运作。总之，它们提供了一个经验基础来挑战将自我审查视为一种单一现象的学术描述。