The power of the fourth estate: Dismantling the concept of freedom of opinion
Milda Aleknonytė | The Lithuania Tribune Say a document titled “Ms. X changed her mind, while Prof. Z keeps his stand” began with the sentence “It is said that only stupid and dead people do not change...
View ArticleOpinion: The media of gender and everyday life in hidden society
The Lithuania Tribune presents another analytical essay by Vladimiras Laučius about the current state of journalism in Lithuania, published by www.delfi.lt. The worsening state of journalism is being...
View ArticleBusinessman Gudelis considers further investments in Lithuanian media
BNS Benas Gudelis does not rule out a possibility of making further investments in the media business in the future after his recent acquisition of a 34 per cent stake in the Lietuvos Rytas Group. The...
View ArticleBNS dismisses pressure by law-enforcement as unacceptable
BNS BNS, the largest news agency in the Baltic states, on Friday said it condemns the pressure exerted by law-enforcement institutions, which it said violates journalists’ right to keep their...
View ArticleProsecutor General on investigation of secret state information leak to the...
BNS Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s office said on Friday the ongoing pre-trial investigation into the leaking of information to the media is being carried out intensively, but in strict compliance...
View ArticleLithuanian PM calls the actions of law-enforcement against media “unacceptable”
BNS Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Friday called the law-enforcement’s actions against the media “unacceptable” amid an ongoing investigation into a leak of information. “I don’t...
View ArticleCouncil of Europe Commissioner criticises pressure on Lithuania’s BNS
BNS The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Nils Muiznieks, has expressed concern over pressure on the Baltic News Agency (BNS) to reveal it sources of information. “Concerned by...
View ArticleOpinion: Security versus media freedom in Lithuania – another provocation?
Edvardas Pocius | The Lithuania Tribune People, who follow Lithuanian news, might know the latest: the state’s Special Investigation Service (SIS) carried out actions against the Baltic News Service...
View ArticlePresident: SIS should carry out in-house probe of actions against journalists
BNS The Special Investigation Service (SIS) should carry out an in-house probe of the actions taken against journalists, says Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė. “The SIS should perform an...
View ArticleLithuanian president suggests stricter rules to protect journalists’ sources
BNS Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday proposed stricter rules to protect journalists’ sources, suggesting that a court must call a journalist to a hearing before issuing an order to...
View ArticleOpinion: Politicians are defending press freedom only with words
The Lithuania Tribune presents an opinion article by journalist and political scientist Ainius Lašas, about the not always transparent relations between Lithuanian politicians and the media, as...
View ArticleOpinion: Crocodile tears in a police state
The Lithuania Tribune presents an opinion article by political analyst Kęstutis Girnius, in which he further scrutinizes the unfolding of the scandal caused by the state secrets’ leak to the Lithuanian...
View ArticleWho are Lithuania’s media elite?
However popular it is to criticize the media, dislike it because of its content or to belittle what journalists do, the media in Lithuania remains a powerful elite. But who are the elite in the...
View ArticleMobile DELFI version proves to be the most popular
In January, the major news portal DELFI attracted a record number of readers to its mobile version, www.delfi.lt informed. In the first month of this year the mobile DELFI version had 5.431 million...
View ArticleLithuanians spend more time in front of TV, read less press
BNS People in Lithuania spent on average 3.40 hours, or 4 minutes more time in front of their TVs last year, compared to 2012, putting behind Estonians who had so far been the longest TV viewers among...
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