Better the devil you don't know: Post-revolutionary journalism
and media ownership in the Czech Republic

J 2015

Better the devil you don't know: Post-revolutionary journalism and media ownership in the Czech Republic

WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ, Lenka and Monika METYKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Better the devil you don't know: Post-revolutionary journalism and media ownership in the Czech Republic

Authors

WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ, Lenka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Monika METYKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Medijske Studije, Zagreb, Croatia, University of Zagreb, 2015, 1847-9758

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

Country of publisher

Croatia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/15:00083099

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

UT WoS

000359782800003

Keywords in English

Czech Republic; print media; ownership; journalism; journalistic values

Abstract

V originále

In 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.

Links

EE2.3.20.0184, research and development project

Name: Vytvoření interdisciplinárního týmu v oblasti výzkumu internetu a nových médií

Citovat

WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ, Lenka and Monika METYKOVÁ. Better the devil you don't know: Post-revolutionary journalism and media ownership in the Czech Republic. Medijske Studije. Zagreb, Croatia: University of Zagreb, 2015, vol. 6, No 11, p. 6-18. ISSN 1847-9758.

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WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ, Lenka and Monika METYKOVÁ. Better the devil you don't know: Post-revolutionary journalism and media ownership in the Czech Republic. \textit{Medijske Studije}. Zagreb, Croatia: University of Zagreb, 2015, vol.~6, No~11, p.~6-18. ISSN~1847-9758.

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