Liviu Popoviciu, Petru Weber







Preaching to the un-converted: Access to majority media for national and ethnic minority journalists

This chapter explores how Western multicultural experiences in media policy regarding the presence of minority journalists in media organisations compare to minority rights agendas in Eastern Europe. Western democracies possess a broad consensus that under-representation of ethnic minorities on editorial boards creates difficulties in providing balanced accounts about minorities and that positive discrimination initiatives redress such shortcomings. However, in most East European countries minorities set up separate media organisations that are central to the preservation of linguistic and cultural identities. Consequently, minority voices have exited the majority media which now lack minority journalists. The chapter concludes by calling for the (re)-inclusion of minority journalists in the majority media.

Keywords: minorities, multiculturalism, access to media, Romania, Hungary


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