QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF MONTENEGRIN MEDIA

“Media in Montenegro” is a common project of Montenegro Media Institute and the OSCE Office in Podgorica. The publishing of this CD is in the interest of improving the communication between media and the broadest public.

For some years now, The Montenegrin media scene has been undergoing striking changes. Putting an end to the monistic era and bringing about - though a rather belated – swing of transition have lead to both a sudden increase in the number of media and their radical structural changes in the Montenegrin media community.

This process, which resulted in the new quality in the information sector, has been developing in relatively poorly regulated environment both in terms of laws and the structure of the media sector as whole. The impression of the absence of clear regulations has been additionally reinforced due to the absence of thorough research, namely the analysis of both the quality and quantity of the media.

With the project of CD edition “Media in Montenegro”, Media Institute continues with its work of serious systematization of data on media here, necessary for understanding the core of our media community, development trends and theoretical organization of Montenegrin media policy strategy. The publication in 2002 has been, the first to give the approximately correct number of active media, in distinction from what till then had been the data about the number of officially registered media.

All information contained in this publication has been gathered through questionnaires filled up by media following the public announcement about preparing this CD publication. The publisher, therefore, bears no responsibility for accuracy of information presented here.

We owe special gratitude to media for providing us with data about the number and the structure of the employees. Since such data can have the nature of confidential business information, it is not presented for individual media but in the summary form per nature of the media. For media, which did not present information, the data from the previous publication has been used (2002).

Having in mind the need for continuous updating, the data from this publication will be presented on the Montenegro Media Institute web site www.mministitute.org. This way electronic version on the MMI web site can be regularly updated through the intervention of media itself.

In advance we want to express our gratitude for each correction and/or amendment.

Montenegro Media Institute
Podgorica, June 2004