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In 2004, Masyuk created a four-part documentary entitled The Character of Friendship, exploring potential dangers in the Sino-Russian relationship. Despite orders from many local governments that it not be allowed to air, the documentary was shown widely across Russia.

In 1998, Masyuk was declared persona non grata by the Foreign Ministry of Tajikistan after broadcasting reports critical of the nation's government.

In early 1997, Masyuk had been pulled from a Chechen assignment due to threats against her. However, she persuaded her editor to allow her to cover a rally in the Chechen capital of Grozny and conduct an interview with rebel commander Salman Raduyev. On 10 May, Masyuk, cameraman Ilya Mordyukov, and sound engineer Dmitri Ulchev were returning from Grozny to Ingushetia when six masked, armed men stopped their car. The three journalists were then forced into another vehicle at gunpoint and driven from the scene.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, founder of the strongly nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, accused Masyuk in 1996 of being on the payroll of Chechen separatists. Masyuk took Zhirinovsky to court for slander, and in December 1997, the court ordered him to publicly apologize and to pay Masyuk $5,000 in damages.

Masyuk was named a Duke University media fellow in 1995, teaching at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism. Following her release from captivity in 1997, she also won the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Masyuk graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in journalism. In 1994, she began working for the then-independent television station NTV, covering the First Chechen War. She later stated that in her reporting, she tried "to show the Chechen side of the story, to give them a chance to tell their point of view, to show how terrible the war was for civilians and even Russian soldiers". The coverage earned her and NTV Russia's top television awards.

Yelena Vasiliyevna Masyuk (Russian: Елена Васильевна Масюк ) (born 24 January 1966) is a Russian television journalist known for her coverage of the First and Second Chechen Wars.