Baltic Media Health Check 2020

The Baltic Media After the Crisis

Baltic Media Health Check 2020

26. November, 2020 Re:Baltica

Baltic Media Health Check is an annual journalistic study that analyses trends, finances and issues of importance in the Baltic media markets. This year, the report has looked into how media companies across the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been reacting to the unexpected drop in revenue caused by the global pandemic.

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Investigative journalism is not an expensive hobby. It is a trade: often lonely, sometimes brave, full-time job which requires both time and money. It is expensive and thus become the first victim when traditional media face crisis. But without it we cannot understand the world around us and held the powers responsible.

We do it as a non-profit organisation which raises money itself and gives investigations to traditional media and publishes them online for free access.

We as editors are the only ones who decide what we are going to investigate because we - and not the advertisers or owners - think it is important topic for the Baltic societies. Thus we can investigate social inequality, corruption, abuses of power or money laundering.

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Important

Re:Check becomes official signatory of International Fact-Checking Network

12. November, 2019 Re:Baltica/ReCheck

International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) has listed Re:Baltica’s fact-checking and social media research hub Re:Check among it’s verified signatories. The decision has been made by the IFCN board consisting of seven fact-checking experts from different regions of the world. By doing that IFCN has recognized Re:Check’s full compliance with IFCN’s Code of Principles that promotes a commitment to nonpartisanship and other professional standards.

Important

Falling audiences make it harder for media companies to grow their revenues

20. November, 2018 Aija Krūtaine

After a few relatively stable years, the media market in the Baltics seems to be headed for interesting times. The latest Baltic Media Health Check report shows that more than half of the most popular media saw their audiences shrink in 2017. It is becoming harder for media owners to grow sales, and the size of the Baltic advertising market is still below its 2008 level.