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54 politicians and their spouses owned one out of seven media outlets last year
january 15, 2026
Last year, 54 politicians and their spouses owned 109 media outlets. In total, there were 806 different types of print media, televisions, internet portals, r...
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Last year one out of eight media outlets was owned by 68 politicians and their spouses
june 23, 2022
One out of eight media outlets (129 in total) were owned by 68 politicians, state officials and their spouses in 2021. According to the newly updated media mo...
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Last year 43 politicians, state officials and their spouses owned 83 media outlets
april 14, 2021
83 media outlets were owned by 43 politicians, state officials and their spouses in 2020. According to the newly updated media monitoring website STIRNA.info,...
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One out of ten media outlets is owned by politicians or state officials
september 23, 2020
In 2019, one out of ten media outlets (101) in Lithuania was owned by 44 politicians, state officials and their spouses. According to the newly updated media ...
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Every second municipality bought from media related to politicians
march 04, 2019
Since 2015 Lithuanian municipalities spent one third (2 million euros) of their publicity budgets to media outlets related to politicians. Media linked to...
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Research
EU money influences media content
june 28, 2017
Media tends to avoid negative or provide positive coverage of those institutions that gave them publicity funding, journalists and experts say according to Tr...
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In 2016 Lithuania's elected politicians and public servants owned 57 media outlets in Lithuania
april 02, 2017
In 2016, 26 politicians and civil servants owned 57 different media tools in Lithuania, shows the newly updated media monitoring website STIRNA.info. Througho...