The Kyiv city state administration decided to draft an editorial statute and set up editors' council of municipal television company Kyiv.
Ukrainian News learned this from the administration's resolution.
By this resolution, the administration amended the TV company's statute.
The amendments envisage that the company statute, containing requirements to the creation and spread of information should be endorsed by the municipal administration.
The requirements involve guarantees for precision, objectiveness and a balanced character of the information spread, including private stories, news about violence, crimes, religious, ethnic and sexual minorities.
The statute must contain demands to a check on trustworthiness of information obtained from third persons, advertisement and sponsorship, prevention of concealed advertisement, and specificities of the spread of information about political parties during electoral processes and beyond them.
The founder has the right to interfere with creative activity of the broadcaster only by way of amending its editorial statute.
The editors' council will be appointed by the municipal administration and the work collective on equal terms.
The resolution does not specify an exact strength of the council.
The editorial council functions include control over implementation of rights and duties of the TV company personnel, control over their observance of the editorial statute, over the demands concerning prohibition of censorship and interference with creative work.
The editorial council may initiate removal of the company's or its branches' managers violating the statute, as well as demand service investigations and discharges if violation facts are confirmed.
As Ukrainian News reported, earlier the city council expressed the intention to reach agreement with municipal mass media on objective coverage of its activity on the whole, and the work of each individual deputy.
In June 2007, the council decided to set up the Kyiv Media Holding in the form of a closed joint stock company by way of merger of municipal mass media, and sale of 49% of its shares to investor.
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