The Concentration of Media Ownership in Romania – Adina Baya

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The Concentration of Media Ownership in Romania. Supporting or challenging pluralism and media freedom? Increased debate has been developed in recent years on how the reconfiguration of media ownership affects media content, and especially on whether the concentration of ownership supports or challenges pluralism and media freedom. The current thesis aims to analyze this topic in the particular case of Romania, one of EU’s newest member and a market where consolidation of media ownership is currently an ongoing process. My undertaking starts from an extensive analysis of the Romanian media market, its regulations and regional speciflcities, for the purpose of assessing the ongoing consolidation trends. It then proceeds to the framing of general arguments used in the debate pro an …