Model of Press Ombudsperson\Media Ethics Focal Point in an Individual Media - How to Implement It in Ukraine?

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine  together with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and the Commission on Journalisms Ethics are inviting stakeholders to take part in an online discussion “Model of Press Ombudsperson\Media Ethics Focal Point in an Individual Media - How to Implement It in Ukraine?” on 2 December 2020, from 10: 00 to 12:00 AM.

How to keep the loyalty of your audience in times of crisis? How to be a reliable source of information for the audience?

After analysing the world practices of media self-regulation and the possibility of their application in the Ukrainian media, the expert will present a model of the Press Ombudsperson\Media Ethics Focal Point adapted to local realities. Implementation of this approach will help strengthen communication with the audience, show real working tools of the audience's influence on the media and respond to complaints, as well as enhance audience’s trust in reliability and worthiness of a media outlet.

The working languages are English and Ukrainian.

Panellists:

1) Taras Shevchenko, Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine

2) Anastasiia Stanko, Editor-in-Chief, Hromadske.ua

3) Boris Davidenko, Editor-in-Chief of Liga.net

4) Nina Kuryata, Media expert

5) Lyudmila Pankratova, Media lawyer

6) Alan Sunderland, Executive Director of the Organization of Media Ombudsmen (ONO)

7) Ukrainian media experts and editors joining via ZOOM

•  Diana Dutsyk, Executive Director at the Ukrainian Institute of Media and Communication
• Angelina Karyakina, National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine 
• Andrii Kulikov, Chairperson of the Commission on Journalism Ethics
• Tetiana Lebedeva, Honorary Chairman of NAM , Member of the Management Board, Fundraising Curator and Representative on the Supervisory Board, Member of the Commission on Journalistic Ethics
•  Natalia Ligacheva, Chairperson of the NGO "Detector Media"
•  Sevgil Musaeva, Editor-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Pravda online publication
•  Oleksii Pogorelov, President of the Ukrainian Association of Media Business, Chairman of the NGO "Commission on Journalism Ethics"
•  Oksana Romanyuk, Executive Director of the NGO "Institute of Mass Information", Member of the Supervisory Board of the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine from public organizations in the field of journalism

The discussion is organized in the framework of the PCU extra-budgetary project "Strengthening Self-Regulation in Ukrainian Media", with the financial support of the Government of Federal Republic of Germany, Kingdom of Norway, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America.

To participate in the event, please register at https://forms.gle/WZLMgM13vtdo6WeE9  by 27 November 2020.