Badji Y. Media Freedom Impact on Professional Journalist’s Activity: Study of Ukrainian and Algerian Experience

Mass media are critically important organizations, which are responsible for public informing and provision of public discussions platforms. They are also instruments for investigation and calling out people in power to be in charge, so they need to be protected from any kind of intervention. Considering this critical function, media freedom in different countries is widely limited to the rights and freedom protection of the state and even some people separately. The dissertation is aimed at the comparative study of Ukrainian and Algerian experience in this field. Ukraine and Algeria are different. Ukraine is a young democracy, which is developing and implementing large-scale reforms that influenced its media landscape significantly. Algeria is transitioning to democracy after the people’s revolution in 2019 as well as reaches peculiar results on its way to freedom and democracy. Nevertheless, it’s not enough as there are plenty of challenges such as the problems of modern media and journalism practices. The problem is the various scale limitation of media freedom in different countries of the globalized world that encourages to search similarities and differences in different media systems of different political, economic, and social conditions; to analyze the causes and the barriers; to study positive experience in fighting media oppression and development of free modern media markets.