How the Lviv media showed themselves in the conditions of keen political struggle in the city

Western media often repeats propaganda from Russia. Why is this?

Why the new government is trying to mess up with journalists and why direct communication with the people is a myth

Why it is dangerous to neglect the topic of war and what the mission of the media community should be

Who’s talking to the world on behalf of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts and what they are saying

Speaker of Lithuania’s Seimas about solutions to the gas monopoly problem in Europe, campaign against emigration of Lithuanians, and a Marshall Plan for Ukraine

British writer and media expert on how media simulacra affect various audiences and why it is helpful to watch Ukrainian experience and mistakes in combating them

In September, top Ukrainian channel talked about the coalition in power 2.8 times more often than they did about the opposition, the Academy of Ukrainian Press, an international charity fund, reports through Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (ZN.ua)

With the presidential election drawing closer in Ukraine, a campaign is unfolding to discredit the mass media

The Yanukovych circle is launching a media purge: Some media moguls have already lost their assets. Meanwhile, new media empires are emerging in Ukraine. The secrecy of their real owners is a typical common feature

UMH Group and VETEK group signed the sales and purchase agreement for 98% of the media holding’s shares, Korespondent reports based on the UMH Group’s official statement.

Multimedia-Invest Group, a holding publishing Vesti, a Russian-language daily newspaper, buys UBR, a business-oriented satellite news channel, and plans to acquire a radio station.

The Stop Censorship! journalist movement set up a temporary informational centre in front of the Interior Ministry at 10 Bohomoltsya Street, despite interference of the police.

Ukrainian newspapers, magazines, radio stations and TV channels are anything but business. Their purpose is anything but the foundation of democracy in society

Based on a specific mindset, dependence, financial mechanisms, tactics and traditions, the Ukrainian press is closer to its genetic predecessors – Soviet party agitation and propaganda – rather than its modern counterparts in the world

The first quarter of this year has some remarkable dates. The way people, the media and politicians treat them is an interesting indicator of a society’s moral and political state.

Since its inception, the press has performed an important social mission and undergone a long evolutionary process along the path to freedom of expression

American journalist David Boardman talks about the challenges facing mass media in the digital era

European institutions should make building an information society in Ukraine one of the priorities of Ukrainian-European cooperation.

The World Newspaper Congress in Kyiv was supposed to give the impression that there is freedom of speech in Ukraine. Shortly after, a blitzkrieg was unleashed against the last free Ukrainian media

The Ukrainian Week would like to inform the Ukrainian and international community of the harassment of the publication after the World Newspaper Congress in Kyiv

The Ukrainian government has tried, and failed miserably, to improve its image in the world through the foreign media

In lieu of an effective media market, Ukrainians will have to realize that they are deprived of the Fourth Power in yet another crisis period, something that the Yanukovych and the Kremlin regimes are using to their advantage

A journalist exposed a conman: the latter had stolen USD 150mn on a single shady oil rig deal. His first reaction: “a journalist can be bought – someone paid him for the publication”. For the most part, the internal world of crime is unknown to me, but all of a sudden, my interest is piqued: does he really believe this? He does indeed

Current Ukrainian regime is diligently copying the best models of country’s northern neighbour, and it appears that the former is extremely envious of the latter’s success in constructing its vertical power structure.

The government is testing how Ukrainian mass media and society are prepared to protect freedom of speech

To Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev and his administration, this is a chance to show off himself and his country to European guests and instil pride for the state and trust in the government among his crisis-stricken citizens

The official ceremony for the Gerd Bucerius Award, which are decided by the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius foundation, together with the Fritt Ord Foundation (Free Word), took place in Hamburg City Hall on Thursday, 24 May 2012

The euphoria over the Law “On Access to Public Information” is gradually evaporating

Those in power conceal information and instil propaganda clichés instead of building a dialogue with society

The nature of anti-Ukrainian provocations