Journalists in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are faced with several challenges with impact the media market as well as the overall status of freedom of speech in the region as a whole. In 2014-2015, several dozen regional newspapers and TV channels closed. Internet websites as well as radio stations are also closing. The reasons for these closures include: capture of editorial offices by armed seperatists, the institution of censorship in the occupied territory; and a decline in advertising income.
Those editorial offices that physically remain in the region must deal with questions of survival in consultation with armed members of separatist groups or participate in unprincipled journalism, undermining not only their own reputation but the profession of journalism as a whole. In order to strengthen the principles of independent journalism in the region, the reopening of editorial offices, and as a result, the strengthening of civil society in Donba...
Цель «Донбасс медиа форума» - формирование толерантного медиа пространства на Донбассе и в Украине с дальнейшим отказом от языка вражды.