{"id":6175,"date":"2019-09-16T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T12:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/na.sofard.dev\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:44:13","slug":"the-fourth-estate-influence-challenges-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/na.sofard.dev\/en\/the-fourth-estate-influence-challenges-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Estate: Influence, Challenges, Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The non-governmental organization &#8220;All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum&#8221; begins the implementation of the project &#8220;The Fourth Estate: Influence, Challenges, Responsibility&#8221; with the support of the Media Development Fund of the US Embassy in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe project is to hold a series of televised lectures for journalists of regional and national mass media, students of &#8220;Journalism&#8221; faculties, bloggers and active public figures, etc. Thanks to the developed video recordings of the lectures, the audience of the project, in addition to the participants of the lectures themselves, will also be viewers of Espreso TV, users of the YouTube channel, Facebook and other media resources.<\/p>\n<p>The main goal of the lectures is to increase the quality, objectivity, non-involvement of media content and, as a result, to increase the level of critical thinking and objectivity of assessments of information and events by Ukrainians. Society should be well informed about events in the country and the world, and the information received should be as honest, fair as possible, without distortion of information. 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