Legal Aspects of Journalist Activity: Successes and Problems in Project Implementation

Abstract

The implementation of the project confirmed the students' high interest and understanding of the knowledge importance and correct interpretation of the legal norms regulating the activities of media and media creative workers in Ukraine. At each stage of project implementation, starting from the information analysis for its initialization to the publication of the tutorial (the last stage), an announcement of the events organized as a part of the project with active advertising was formed (about all events no later than 10 days before the event), posting information on the Facebook department's page, as well as on the website of the Lviv Polytechnic National University, and also publishing photo reports on the events. The project’s goal was achieved as an electronic dictionary of basic terms for the discipline Human Rights in the Media was created, as well as the dictionary of basic terms for the subject Legal norms of journalism in Ukraine was completed. Furthermore, the awareness of students, future journalists was increased depending on the method of work design, type of mass media, and nature of work (survey results), the legal information hygiene was formed (survey results), the ability to read and interpret the statements of normative legal acts on mass media activities was improved (survey results), the skills were formed to distinguish facts from comments, to write information requests and appeals, to work in a court, which became especially relevant in the conditions of martial law.