Information Support of International Activity Role and Importance of Informational Agencies

Abstract

The article deals with the activities of informational agencies in the media providing the international state activity according to the fact that current major world informational agencies play a major, and to some respect an exclusive role in the functioning of global information and communication flows. On the example of the Ukrainian National Information Agency «Ukrinform» functioning study there were achieved the main purposes of the research: to prove the role of a system-called news agency in an objective and attractive representation of Ukraine in the world, such as spreading the news and forming a positive international image of Ukraine. Applied research methods such as analysis, synthesis, comparison, analogy, classification, monitoring, and document analysis. The main conclusions are the recognition of the news agencies activity to be of great importance and powerful, but currently been not a sufficiently involved resource for promoting and protecting the national interests and democratic changes in our country, positioning Ukraine on the world information map as an independent and pro-European country.