medienhilfe

• Gruner + Jahr: Zeitungsgeschäft in Osteuropa an Ringier verkauft. Spiegel online, 24/10/2003
• Ringier expandiert im Osten. Yahoo news 24/10/2003
   
• ROM: Journalists accuse media owners of editorial interference, IJNet 276, 27/09/04
• Media Ownership and Its Impact on Media Independence and Pluralism, IJNET 259, 31/05/04
• Newcomers take on German media giant, IWPR No. 478, 29/01/04
• Macedonia: LOBI 140, October 21, 2003:
• New monopoly on the Macedonian Media Sky: The state will control TV and Radio stations, and WAZ the press

• All of WAZ's affairs: “KRONEN ZEITUNG”, "GRUPPO”, “POLITIKA"...

• The monopoly administration of the republic of Macedonia cannot do anything.
• The Government's gift to WAZ amounts to 3.5 millon denars directly and 6.8 million indirectly.

Documents:

• Conclusions and recommendations: Regional conference on concentration of media ownership and its impact on media freedom and pluralism, June 2004
• Slovene media in ownership turbulences, Media Online, 11/05/04
• European Federation of Journalists: Eastern Empires. Foreign Ownership in Central and Eastern European Media: Ownership, Policy Issues and Strategies. Brussels, June 2003
• WAZ and the Buy-out of Macedonian Independent Press. Report by Agnes Handwerk and Harrie Willems, commissionned by PressNow, Amsterdam, January 2004
• OSCE: The Impact of Media Concentration on Professional Journalism, Vienna 2003 (pdf 660kb)
• OSCE: Principles for Guaranteeing Editorial Independence. Proposed by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
• Council of Europe - Committee of Ministers: Recommendation No. R (99) 1 on Measures to promote Media Pluralism
• Council of Europe - Media Division: Media diversity in Europe (Dec. 2002)