From State Censorship to Pressure of Money: New Challenges for Media Transparency in Ukraine
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Date
2010
Authors
Grynko, Anastasiia
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The paper reviews the transformation of non-transparent influences experienced
by media professionals in Ukraine within the normative concept of media
transparency. The author also discusses the professional role of journalists in
light of these transformations. As the decision about coverage is often shifted to
„higher“ level of owners and inter-organisational-level-negotiations, journalists
loose their professional role in gate-keeping process, and news sources (government,
political parties or business organisations) manipulate media organisation
as a whole. In this situation the way journalists perceive, understand and interpret
the practices in which they are involved and their roles in these practices
become especially important, as does their ability to recognise the pressure and
take an active position in counteraction against cases of non-transparency.
Keywords
media transparency, freedom of speech, media practices in Ukraine, ethics of journalism, Orange Revolution, temnyky, pressures on media