The processes of concentration and monopolization on the regional press market in Poland Cover Image

Procesy koncentracji i monopolizacji na rynku prasy regionalnej w Polsce
The processes of concentration and monopolization on the regional press market in Poland

Author(s): Zbigniew Jurczyk
Subject(s): Economy, Media studies, Civil Society, Economic policy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: regional press market; media pluralism; titles consolidation; ownership concentration; antitrust law

Summary/Abstract: In the last period we can observe the intensive tendency to media ownership concentration and monopolization. In Poland the intensification of media-ownership concentration has especially appeared on the regional press market. Nowadays this branch of press in Poland is completely under control of foreigner media holdings. The result of that concentration and monopolization substantially undermined media pluralism and media freedom of the regional press in Poland. Particular attention in this papers is paid to the presentation of ineffectiveness of antitrust law as a legal instrument and the Polish antimonopoly authority to tackle − pointed above − negative phenomena on the press market and to maintain a diversity and competition.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 405
  • Page Range: 127-140
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish