ETHICAL VALUES OF JOURNALISTS OF UKRAINE IN DOCUMENTS OF UN, COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND IFJ

The adherence to traditional professional values of journalists has a socio-constructive value and contributes to the development of a democratic, civil society. Media which ignore the professional values listed in the documents of international organizations, cause destructive problems in society and contribute to its regression. In order to develop democracy, protect the freedom of the Ukrainian media, improve national legal and ethical documents with principles and values of journalists to regulate their professional activities in accordance with the ratified documents of international organizations 123 where Ukraine is a member, the article analyzes media documents of international organizations of the UN, Council of Europe and IFJ containing systematized ethical values of journalists. The article confirms the absence of values of journalistic ethics and media freedom components as the main principle of journalism in the Code of Ethics of Ukrainian journalist and Ukrainian legislation, and also the absence of norms which declare the freedom of media as the main principle of journalism and create the basis for development of democracy in the country. The article reveals that documents of international organizations of the United Nations, the Council of Europe state that the ethical value, the principle of freedom of the media consists of: 1) freedom of access to information for journalists; 2) freedom to seek, receive information during collection, verification, clarification of information; 3) freedom to disseminate information in the media, regardless of frontiers; 4) freedom of expression or freedom of evaluation in the media without violating the current legislation; 5) social responsibility of journalists for published content; 6) prohibition of censorship at the stage of information gathering, production of media materials and after their publication.