The largest share of news in the regional online media reports about crimes and related issues, or covers some emergency events. At that, 70% of news are reprints or “no-legwork” news. These are the results of the research of NGO “Institute of Mass Information”, that was conducted in ten regions of Ukraine in October this […]

In October, IMI registered 12 violations of journalists’ rights in seven regions of Ukraine. Of them, 10 cases is physical aggression against journalists. This is the data of the monthly monitoring of the Institute of Mass Information (IMI) “Freedom of Press Barometer”. The largest number of violations in October was registered by IMI experts in […]

In September, IMI registered sharp increase in the number of beatings of journalists – 6 cases, while in August IMI experts registered no such cases. For the context, the greatest number of beatings was registered by IMI since the start of the year in July – 7 cases (in June – 1, in March – 6, […]

Only 22% of regional online media outlets display data on their owners. These are the results of monitoring by NGO “Institute of mass information”, which was conducted in 10 regions of Ukraine in September this year.* The transparency was evaluated based on the following criteria: presence in the information websites of contact information, names of […]