MONTH SUMMARY OF EVENTS (May 2011 )

Organization title: nongovernmental organization “Institute of Mass Information” (IMI)

1) Monitoring of six national editions was conducted (“Fakty”, “Segodnya”, “Economicheskie Izvestiya”, “Korrespondent”, “Ukrajinskyi Tyzhden”and “Komentari”) for compliance with journalistic standards and posting the so-called “jeans”.

2) The most egregious violations of journalistic standards and "jeans" were posted on blogs (Telykrytyka, Livejournal, TweetDeck). Alexander Akymenko blogging:
•    Open letter to pharmaceutical company AS OlainFarm
http://imi.org.ua/olfa

3) Article by Oleksandr Akymenko was published
How Medved(chyuk) ordered “jeans” in the forest
http://blogs.telekritika.ua/?id=2348

4) According to the results of monitoring journalistic standards and "jeans" the following materials were written and distributed:
1. Press release on monitoring standards. May 2011.
http://imi.org.ua/content/monitoging-standartiv-05-2011
2. Monitoring of standards in national editions
http://imi.org.ua/content/monitoring-djynsy-05-2011-Kiev
3. Monitoring of «jeans» in Donetsk editions
http://imi.org.ua/content/monitoring-djynsy-05-2011-Donetsk
4. Monitoring of «jeans» in Crimean editions
http://imi.org.ua/content/monitoring-djynsy-05-2011-Krym
5. Monitoring of «jeans» in Lviv editions
http://imi.org.ua/content/monitoring-djynsy-05-2011-Lviv


5) According to monitoring results the reports were written and posted on the IMI website.