Lithuania – (C5) Journalists’ job security
In most media organizations journalists are working on job contracts.
Indicators: Control / Watchdog
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.
Germany – (C9) Watchdog function and financial resources
The main German news media are in a quite good financial situation for in-depth investigations.
Germany – (C8) Professional training
In Germany, there is no serious lack of opportunities for journalism training.
Germany – (C7) The watchdog and the media’s mission statement
There is no widespread use of mission statements that explicitly foster investigative journalism. However, most interviewees emphasized the importance of investigative journalism.
Germany – (C6) Practice of access to information
Formally the access to information and to governmental documents is unlimited, though it does not work in a completely satisfactory manner in daily practice.
Germany – (C5) Journalists’ job security
Journalists only have rudimentary legal protection.
