Аннотация:The article reviews the main stages in the development of mass media education in Ukraine from 1992 to 2018, the author analyzes the scientific works of leading Ukrainian media educators and researchers of media culture, the goals, theoretical foundations of models of mass media education. As a result, it was concluded that since 2014 the problem field of research of many Ukrainian media educators has been determined by the analysis of the state of media security of Ukraine, by studying the technology of conducting information and psychological wars. The author also studied a number of Ukrainian Internet sites on the problems of mass media education (analytical articles, notes, comments on media topics, interviews, talks, discussions). The article notes that in Ukraine there has been a transition from aesthetic and practical theories to the theories of development of critical thinking, defensive (anti-propagandistic) and media-ecological concepts.