About 50% of Ukrainian journalists do not have specialized education, head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine Oleh Nalyvayko said at the meeting of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov with members of the Secretariat of the NUJ, ForUm correspondent reports.

The head also reported that according to various estimates up to 80% of the graduates of department of journalism do not work by profession. In his opinion, it is necessary to raise the question of reforming the training of journalists in Ukraine.

According to Nalyvayko, we need to strengthen the protection of journalistic rights and journalistic ethics.

As for the media market as a whole, the head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine stressed that the world media are going through hard times. Global trends are falling incomes of the advertising market, stagnancy of newspaper forms, the high cost of the product.

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