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Portugal – (E10) Rules and practices on internal pluralism

In Portugal, there is no tradition for news media to publicly endorse a political party or a candidate. All main media insist […]

People are not particularly encouraged to participate in the news process, in spite of some improvements in the online context.

Some self-regulation mechanisms exist on the level of the main news media.

There is a national Code of Ethics but is not always widely implemented.

There are different monitoring instruments and they are publicly available.

Prices are decreasing and much free content is offered, but the cost of news media is still relatively high for an average household.

Relatively little attention is paid to minorities in the mainstream media, and they have few media of their own.

There is an increasing homogenization of formats, meaning less diversity.

Ownership concentration at the regional level is very low.

There are three or more competitors for every area, but the level of ownership concentration is rather high.