Composition of the Commission

Head of the Commission on Journalistic Ethics since 2017. Journalist, editor, radio presenter, TV presenter, actor, media expert and media trainer. He worked in the Ukrainian Service of the BBC (London), TSN on the TV channel “1+1,” “Novyi Kanal,” “STB.” He was the host of the political talk show “Freedom of Speech” on ICTV. In 2013, he co-founded Hromadske Radio. Since September 2015, he has been its chair of the board.

Journalist, editor of the poglyad.info website, Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk oblast. He worked as the editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Nash Reporter (“Our Reporter”) (Dniprodzerzhynsk) and has been involved in journalism since 1995. He began his career as a reporter in the newspaper Vedomosti, then worked as the deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Podiia (Event) newspaper, as a columnist of the economics department in The Ukrainian Week. From 2003 to 2008, he headed the Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine.

Honored Journalist of Ukraine, PhD in Philology, teacher at the Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism and executive director of the NGO Ukrainian Institute of Media and Communication, member of the Council on Freedom of Speech and Protection of Journalists since November 6, 2019.

Public figure and media manager. Honorary Chair of the National Media Association. Member of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting in 2003-2010, civil servant of the first rank. The first head of the Supervisory Board of the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine (2017-2019). Member of the Council on Freedom of Speech and Protection of Journalists under the President of Ukraine since November 6, 2019.

Media expert and trainer on issues of gender equality and non-discrimination, head of Association “Women in Media” NGO, national consultant for media and gender projects of the Council of Europe in Ukraine and International Media Support (IMS), Internews Ukraine, Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), etc. In 2016-2019, she worked at Hromadske Radio. She graduated from Odesa Law Academy with a master’s degree in Law.

First Secretary of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. A journalist with more than 25 years of media experience (Holos Ukrainy newspaper, BBC Ukrainian Service, Reuters). Education: Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, journalism department. Until 2014, she lived and worked in Donetsk. An expert in covering military conflict, migration, the lives of individual social and ethnic groups (particularly for projects by ICMPD, IFES Ukraine, Gustav Stresemann Institute, Media Dialogue, and others). Co-editor and consultant of several publications on journalistic ethics and journalistic practice.

Journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of the Novosti Donbassa website. In 2021, he was the editor-in-chief of public and political broadcasting of the state TV channel Dom. In April 2014, he was included in the list of “100 heroes of information,” first published by Reporters without Borders. In October 2014, Oleksii Matsuka was awarded the International Press Freedom Award by the Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression.

Journalist, media expert, member of the committee of the Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine. He worked as the editor-in-chief of the Mykolaiv weekly newspaper SKIF.

Since 2022, he joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a military servant.

Media manager, honored journalist of Ukraine, head of the Supervisory Board of the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine. Deputy editor-in-chief of the Detector Media portal, until November 2015 — deputy director of Telekrytyka web portal. Member of public councils under the Parliament Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy and the State Television and Radio Committee. The author of over 600 publications, of which more than 100 are dedicated to public broadcasting.

Chair of the board of the ZMINA Center for Human Rights. She graduated from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. She studied at Harvard University at the Ukrainian Research Institute Program, at the Ukrainian School for Political Studies, and at Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism (Digital Future Journalism program). Furthermore, she defended her dissertation on the topic: “The concept of freedom of speech in modern Ukrainian mass media discourse” at the Taras Shevchenko National University to obtain her PhD.

Media manager with more than 25 years of experience in effective management of media projects, president of the Ukrainian Media Business Association, member of the public councils of the Parliament Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, the Committee on Freedom of Speech and the State Television and Radio Committee. For more than 10 years, he has been an expert for OSCE and Council of Europe media projects in Ukraine. He studied self-regulation in the field of journalistic ethics based on the experience of Germany, Sweden, Denmark and within the framework of the CJE representation in the Alliance of Independent Press Councils of Europe (AIPCE).

Media expert, executive director of the NGO Institute of Mass Information (IMI) since 2013, Ukraine’s representative in Reporters without Borders. In 2021, she was elected to the supervisory board of the Public Broadcaster in the field of journalism.

Head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, member of the executive committee of the European Federation of Journalists, member of the public council under the State Television and Radio Committee of Ukraine, member of the Council on Freedom of Speech and Protection of Journalists under the President of Ukraine. He has been working in journalism since 1995 — as a correspondent, department editor, deputy editor-in-chief of the oblast newspaper Youth of Cherkasy Region. He was the editor-in-chief of the regional socio-economic newspaper Nova Doba (New Age) (1998-2010). Founder and head of the Procherk.info project (2010–2017). He is a certified trainer of practical journalism, a graduate of the IREX U-Media ToT program.

Advisor of Internews Network, member of the board of directors at GIJN — Global Investigative Journalism Network, a certified media consultant and journalist trainer with many years of experience in the media industry, author of several manuals on journalism and journalism training and regional coordinator of the international project SCOOP (Denmark) supporting journalistic investigations. He worked as a journalist and editor in several newspapers and news agencies, headed the press service of the Crimean Parliament in 1994–1997, was a regional correspondent of the European Media Institute, became the director of the IREX ProMedia Crimean Press Center in 1997 and an advisor on print media for IREX U-Media since 2005.

Media manager and radio journalist. Member of the board (representing radio broadcasting) of the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine. Associate Professor of the Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. He has been working in radio journalism since 2004. He has been heading the Group of Radio Stations including Ukrainske Radio, Radio Promin, Radio Culture) since 2017. In addition to teaching at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, he is the head of the state exam commission (for the major “TV and radio host”).