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Better the devil you don’t know: post-revolutionary journalism and media ownership in the Czech Republic
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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:12 authored by Monika MetykovaMonika Metykova, Lenka Waschkova CisarovaIn this article we map some of the key developments on the Czech print media market following the fall of communism in 1989. We focus on ownership changes and their impact on the conduct of professional journalism. In the 1990s foreign media companies (dominantly German and Swiss) entered the Czech media market and brought with them a profit-oriented model of journalism. Our research in the mid-2000s explored these changes and their impact on journalists’ professional conduct. At the time journalists stressed commercial pressures, however, in the mid-2010s with the departure of foreign print media owners (except for one) and the emergence of local ones, journalists voiced concerns about interference in content for political purposes. We also note that the journalists we interviewed did not reflect on the influence of government on the conduct of their profession, for example, through media regulation.
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Medijske Studije/Media StudiesISSN
1847-9758Publisher
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political ScienceIssue
11Volume
6Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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- Public Culture Hub Publications
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Special issue: Media Democratization: Media Systems Twenty Five Years After the Revolutions of 1989Full text available
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2016-09-30Usage metrics
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