Lithuania – (C9) Watchdog function and financial resources
No pre-planned budgets are allocated to perform investigative journalism and fulfill the watchdog function.
Countries: Lithuania
Lithuania – (C8) Professional training
There is a well-established practice of continuous training of media professionals.
Lithuania – (C7) The watchdog and the media’s mission statement
The watchdog mission is understood (and sometimes also implemented) as an important, but not a primary function of the contemporary news media.
Lithuania – (C6) Practice of access to information
Additional demands are formulated for journalists.
Lithuania – (C5) Journalists’ job security
In most media organizations journalists are working on job contracts.
Lithuania – (C4) Journalism professionalism
Professionalism values vary across different media, and this is associated with transformations taking place in the media field, such as economic (media crisis and budget cuts) and technological (media convergence and new demands on journalists) changes.
Lithuania – (C3) Transparency of data on media system
Media ownership data are available to the citizens.
Lithuania – (C2) Independence of the news media from power holders
Mainstream media do not have established rules and procedures to cope with pressures from power holders.
Lithuania – (C1) Supervising the watchdog ‘control of the controllers’
Public criticism and regular public debates on media performance are found in the media; this, however, happens only on an irregular basis.
Lithuania – (E10) Rules and practices on internal pluralism
No written rules exist and most of the newsrooms have their own non-interference norms and practices; research studies, however, show that the mainstream media are susceptible to external pressures, and with the media crisis this has worsened.
