The foundation contract of the Association for the Protection of Journalistic Ethics in the Slovak Republic was signed on October 2, 2001 by representatives of the Slovak Syndicate of Journalists and Slovak Press Publishers’ Association. Aware of the challenges presented by online reporting and its increasing influence, the original founders of the APJE (publishers and journalists) have invited the top Internet association IAB Slovakia to join their ranks and to add more digital dimension. Since June 23rd, 2025 new members joined AIPCE : Slovak Television Broadcasters Association and Slovak Radio Broadcasters Association. The Association for the Protection of journalistic ethics is led by an assembly of representatives, in which each of the member organisations has one member. The leaders of all organisations regularly take turns heading APJE.
The Print-Digital Council (former Press Council) was constituted in April 2002 and consists of eleven members – in accordance with the approved STATUTE – figures of the public, cultural and social life that are not actively working as journalists or publishers and do not represent any political party.
Since its formation, the Print-Digital Council follows the Code of Journalistic Ethics.
The Press and Digital Council of the Slovak Republic (TR SR), the executive body for ethical self-regulation of the Association for the Protection of Journalistic Ethics in the Slovak Republic (AONE), was admitted into AIPCE—Alliance of the Independent Press Councils of Europe—in London on September 5th, 2024.
On November 5th, 2024 at the meeting of the Board of Representatives AONE and in the presence of the Chairwoman of TR SR, the Optional Protocol to the Code of Journalistic Ethics on the Protection of Human Dignity, Humanity and Minors was adopted, further strengthening the ethical self-regulation and powers of TR SR.
On September 11, 2025, at a meeting of the Board of Representatives of the Association for the Protection of Journalistic Ethics in the Slovak Republic, the Second Optional Protocol to the Journalist´s Code of Ethics on Public Access to Information, the Comprehensiveness of Information, Opinion Plurality, Objectivity and Impartiality was unanimously adopted .