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Media ownership
Basic-Hrvatin, Sandra and Kucic, Lenart and Petkovic, Brankica |
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| The issues of media ownership concentration and the formulation and implementation of an effective media legislation received considerable attention in recent years. This book contains the regional overview compiled on the basis of the 18 country reports written for this project, the full text of the Slovenian report and the conclusions and recommendations of the international conference organized upon the conclusion of the project. Eighteen researchers and journalists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, collected and analysed relevant data from October 2003 to February 2004. The reports resulting from this project, including the regional overview, reXect the situation at the end of 2003/beginning of 2004. However, media markets in these countries are dynamic, with ownership structures and the number of media outlets changing virtually on a daily basis, and media legislation being continually amended. So, inevitably, certain data in these reports had become obsolete by the time of their publication. Nevertheless, the collected data clearly expose the patterns that underlie the media market operation and regulators’ and media owners’ behavior in the countries under consideration i.e., their impact on media pluralism and independence. |
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