On May 20, 2019, with the support of the Council of Europe projects, findings of the independent monitoring of media coverage of the presidential election campaign in Ukraine were presented by a coalition of NGOs on a press conference in Kyiv and discussed with Ukrainian national authorities, media experts and journalists at a roundtable discussion that followed.
During 14 January - 21 April 2019, a team of 15 independent monitoring specialists and 5 media analysts and experts, using the monitoring methodology, developed by the Council of Europe experts Rasťo Kužel and Oleksandr Burmahin, carried out quantitative and qualitative analysis of the media coverage of the presidential race on 12 national TV channels, 8 online media outlets and selected Facebook pages of opinion leaders, candidates and online media outlets, TV channels and/or separate monitored TV programs.