You are invited to “host” indicators in our workshop, making a short oral presentation with general findings within this one indicator (cross-country). You can find the reports under the tab "Edition 2020 -> Country Reports - provisional" above in the menu (or directly through this link). Tell us which indicator (or several) you would like to comment by writing your name in the respective box at your earliest convenience: https://myfiles.sbg.ac.at/index.php/apps/onlyoffice/s/bfS7y6tN5b7FCao

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Tales

We are already uploading the reports of the Edition 2020. Where you are logged in our forum, you can see them here: http://euromediagroup.org/mdm/2020-country-reports/. As this is rather for internal work, you will not be able to see these reports without being logged in. It's not public yet.

Please bear in mind that this is work in progress. We'll discuss it further over the workshop and next weeks.

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Tales

• we realize that some indicators are quite general and relate to the media system, while others are specific and speak to the individual company;
• in some cases we need to 'translate' for the national context the language and approach of indicators - methodological caution will certainly be discussed in Salzburg
• indicator E4 includes two different 'realities': in fact 'minority media' is not the same as 'alternative'. In the previous edition we realize this has been understood as mainly 'minority' and related to languages spoken in the country. We shall nevertheless also work out a paragraph on 'alternative', which is quite relevant to reflect on the overall democratic situation;
• in a similar vein, C9: we believe 'watchdog' as a function is  different from 'investigative journalism'. It would be good to have some feedback on this...

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The first interviews with journalists /editors are scheduled by the end of this week, and we have a question regarding confidentiality.  In the Research manual: Interview guidelines we are asked to list all interviews (persons, company, date etc) for reference.  Is that a list that will be published? Or can we promise our interviewees that what information they give us will be in confidence?

We can promise confidentiality. What we would like to publish is simple the name of the media companies we talked with. But not the names of the individual journalist.

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Question:

Regarding the number of interviews and media outlets: Should we understand that, for every communication media included in our sample, we should conduct two interviews? That is, if we have decided to use a sample of 8 media, should we have 16 interviews?

There is no need for formally sticking to the number. This is qualitative research and what counts is the information gathered. If you consider that you have gathered the relevant information, there is no need to do more interviews (up to the point of saturation).

(In both ways, the files are stored in servers from the University of Salzburg.)