From Multinationals to Business Tycoons
Media Ownership and Journalistic Autonomy in Central and Eastern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Václav Štětka (0000-0001-8381-3645, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 433-456 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Press/Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-1612 • E-ISSN: 1040-1620 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1940161212452449 |
| OpenAlex | W2161074707 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article presents a comparative analysis of the changing patterns of media ownership in ten new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and discusses the implications of these processes for media freedom and autonomy. Briefly outlining the history of internationalization of CEE media markets, it argues that the presence of Western-based multinational companies on the CEE media markets has been recently diminishing rather than further growing. In addition, a different type of actor has been gaining prominence on the CEE media map, unspotted or largely overlooked in most previous analyses, namely, local business elites acquiring stakes in news media. Combining secondary sources and field interviews with media experts and practitioners, this study explores the various practices of business and political instrumentalization of media by their local owners, often resulting in a constrained editorial independence and increasing intertwinement of the systems of media, politics, and economy in the region
Autonomy · Business · Independence (probability theory · International trade · Internationalization · Media conglomerate · Media management · Multinational corporation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
Journalism and political affiliation of the media
Behind the storefront of democracy
Between a rock and a hard place
News Beat Fluidity in Civic, Infotainment, and Service Role Performance Across Cultures
Hierarchy of influences on transitional journalism – Corrupting relationships between political, economic and media elites
Crumbled autonomy
I Know Which Devil I Write for
“ Carried ” over to streaming
Abnegation, accommodation and affirmation
“Nobody Tells us what to Write about”
From Transition to Authoritarian Populism
Delayed Reflections
Outsourced Political Campaign
Legal and Ethical Regulation in Slovakia and Its Relation to Deliberative Communication
Media Accountability
Detachment as a privilege
Social media, quality of democracy, and citizen satisfaction with democracy in central and eastern Europe
Time-based Variability in the Presence of Infotainment, Service, and Civic Roles in Czech Quality Press
Revenue Pressures vs. Professional Duties
Journalism in Transitional Context
Journalism Facing Autocratization
Streaming against the current
Transnational chain ownership of news media
A critique of the systems approaches in comparative media research
Why do pluralistic media systems emerge? Comparing media change in the Czech Republic and in Russia after the collapse of communism
Pin-ups, strippers and centerfolds
More or More of the Same
We Are Not Fools”
Investigative Journalism in Central and Eastern Europe
Constraints and limitations of investigative journalism in Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Romania
Post-socialist self-censorship
Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts
Streaming freedom in illiberal Eastern Europe
Party pledges in the news
Towards illiberal conditioning? New politics of media regulations in Poland (2015–2018)
Understanding the illiberal turn
Changing Forms of Ownership in a Democratic Corporatist Media System - How Digitalization Leads to Less Transparency and the Risk of Media Capture
Towards Responsible Media
Mass media and social change
Comparing Media Systems
Market-Led Reforms as Incentives for Media Change, Development and Diversification in the Baltic States
Journalistic Elites in Post-Communist Romania
The Russian Oligarchs and the Press
Internationalizing media theory
A Case for Comparing Apples with Oranges Intemational Differences in Values
Political clientelism and the media
Is East-Central Europe Backsliding? From Democracy Fatigue to Populist Backlash
Media—political clientelism
What Shapes the News around the World? How Journalists in Eighteen Countries Perceive Influences on Their Work
De-Westernizing Media Studies
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,92 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |