While the community media sector may be reported as established and well developed in Western Europe, it has grown considerably more slowly in almost all countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The knowledge about the condition and possibilities for development of the sector in the region is also limited. Urszula Doliwa (CMFE Board Member, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland) and Larisa Rankovic (Belgrade University, Serbia) in the article “Time for community media in Central and Eastern Europe” (Central European Journal of Communication Volume 7 No. 1 (12) Spring 2014) try to look at the problem of community media in Central and Eastern Europe in general and present the specific problems of the community media development in this region from the Eastern perspective.
Download the 16 pages report here: pdf The authors were inspired by the Mapping Project of Community Media completed by the Community Media Forum Europe in 2012 according to which the community media sector is legally recognized in only four countries from this region.
For further questions please get in contact with Urszula Doliwa urszula.doliwa [a] cmfe.eu
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