Media policies in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and China: a comparative perspective

Miklos Sukosd
Associate Professor (Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen)

This presentation compares media and communication policies in three regions/countries of the world: the new Eastern European member states of the European Union, Russia and China. These three regions shared a similar communist political and media system in the past, yet their post-communist or late communist avenues of change differ very significantly. The paper compares regulatory principles as well as sectoral policies in the area of newspapers, broadcasting, and online media, respectively, with a special attention to ownership regulation. A historical angle is used as background, while the focus is on contemporary trends and the interrelationship of the three regions/countries in the media transformation of the 21st century.