Memo

The Impact of

Media Concentration

on Professional

Journalism

The Representative on

Freedom of the Media

VIENNA 2003

REPRESENTATIVE ON FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA

The Impact of Media Concentration

on Professional Journalism

Researcher: Johannes von Dohnanyi

Assisting: Christian Möller

Vienna 2003

On the cover is a drawing entitled Des Schreibers Hand (The Writer’s

Hand) by the German author and Nobel prize laureate (1999) Günter

Grass. He has kindly let our Office use this as a label for publications

of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

The drawing was created in the context of Grass’s novel Das Treffen in

Telgte, dealing with literary authors at the time of the Thirty Years War.

The publisher thanks the governments of the

Federal Republic of Germany and

The Netherlands

for their financial support to this publication.

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Photograph on the cover: Jacqueline Godany, Vienna

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Contents

Preface

by Freimut Duve

9

Introduction

by Johannes von Dohnanyi and Christian Möller

11

1. The Impact of Media Concentration

on Professional Journalism

by Johannes von Dohnanyi

15

Democracy and Professional Journalism

International Legal Framework

The Socio-Political Role of the Media in General

and Daily Newspapers in Particular

Concentration in the Media Sector

Legislation on Media Concentration

The European Union and Media Concentration

New Threats on the Horizon

• Cross-Media Ownership

• Cross-Border Ownership

•...