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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS' NETWORK
May 31, 2004
Media Ownership and Its Impact on Media Independence and Pluralism
Results from a research project on
media ownership in central and Eastern Europe are now available online at
http://www.mirovni-institut.si/media_ownership.
“Media Ownership and Its Impact on Media
Independence and Pluralism,” conducted by the South East European Network for
Professionalization of the Media (SEENPM), maps out ownership patterns and their
effects in Southeast European countries and EU member states in central and
Eastern Europe. SEENPM will release a print version of the survey in June.
"The close interrelation of media,
political and economic capital (sometimes in the hands of a single person) is a
common feature of EU member states as well as the 18 countries included in this
study," the report states in its regional summary. "This book represents an
attempt to delineate some of the basic characteristics of the media markets in
post-socialist countries."
The study provides reports for: Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,
Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania,
Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The Peace Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia - a
SEENPM member - led the study, which was conducted between July 2003 and May
2004.
The study's findings also will be
presented at a regional conference in Blend, Slovenia, on June 11 and 12. (See
the IJNet News Archive at
http://www.ijnet.org/FE_Article/newsarticle.asp?UILang=1&CId=210820).
SEENPM and the Peace Institute are organizing the conference with the Council of
Europe's Media Division. Participants from all of the 18 countries covered in
the project are expected to attend.
For more information, contact Brankica
Petkovic at the Peace Institute at brankica.petkovic@mirovni-institut.si,
telephone +386 1 234 77 20, 234 77 27, or fax at +386 1 234 77 22.
source: IJNET #259
published by: Daniela Mathis dma@medienhilfe.ch
date of release on this site 01/06/04
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