We live in a world of technology, where everything that happens around us is available on websites or in the media in general. Never in the history have there been so many sources of information as today. Therefore, journalism is increasingly important today, but it's also important how this profession is approached. The responsibility, conscientiousness and professionalism of the media has never before been more necessary. This is exactly what journalistic ethics is for, which advocates that journalistic activity tends towards moral, professional and accurate reporting. The main goal of the media (including offering information, education and entertainment) should be to build a healthy relationship with the audience and society, for which access to information is one of the important rights. Unfortunately, in quite a few cases, the media also misinform, manipulate, spread fear, panic, hate and intolerance, and ultimately - make money. There are many examples of media companies where the owner has a close connection with political parties and in that case bias and other failures in the form of ethical principles are noticed in the activity. In this thesis, the analysis of the selected examples will point to the main omissions and examples of non-compliance with professional journalistic standards. The analysis includes the most read Croatian portals: Index.hr, 24 sata, Tportal.hr, N1 Hrvatska, Jutarnji list, Telegram, Večernji list... The goal of this paper is to identify elements of non-compliance with journalistic ethics and lack of professionalism during the pandemic and to review/investigate to what extent these standards are violated. The analysis is carried out during the duration of the COVID-19 epidemic in Croatia, more precisely from the end of February 2020 until July of the current year (until the writing of this paper).