Abstract:
The article presents a scientific study of this problem in journalism as a precondition of the
formation of the
code of ethics of employees of masses-media. The authors discusses the most significant cases of
the appear- ance of documents, the normalizing of editorial life, relationships between
journalists, the rules of conduct of the journalist in different situations of professional
activity. The study built on the study of various literary sources, archival materials, their
analysis, identification of patterns. The authors concluded that, due to the ac- tive development
of journalistic practices, found more areas that needed not legislation, and in ethics, not in
state control, a journalistic self-regulation. This suggests that employees of mass-media necessary
profession- al code of honor, and despite the abundance of such documents in the world, this issue
still requires attention
and provides scope for new publications and further research.