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ARMENIA MOST FAVORABLE CAUCASIAN COUNTRY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIA
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Aug 17, 2011
Armenia
Armenia is recognized the most favorable country for development of
media among the Caucasian states, says the Media Sustainability Index
(MSI) report issued by IREX experts.
The IREX experts gave Armenia 2.09 score, the highest score among the
South Caucasian states. Azerbaijan's score is 1.65, whereas Georgia's
is 1.85.
The report says three major developments in 2010 significantly impacted
Armenia's media sector and received a lot of attention by the MSI
panelists. Among them is decriminalization of defamation, blog launched
by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and increasing influence of online
periodicals, citizen journalists, and social networking platforms.
"The last development incited tangible changes in a number of cases.
To name a few, plans to demolish the summer hall of a downtown movie
theater were revoked; amendments to the country's maternity-leave
laws limiting maternity welfare payments were abandoned; and
several teachers were forced to resign after videos of their
beating schoolchildren were widely circulated online. Perhaps the
most unexpected event of the past year, the forced resignation of
the Yerevan mayor following rumors that he beat an officer in the
president's protocol department, could also be partly attributed to
online media and the blogger community, which heavily covered the
incident prior to the resignation," the report says.
The experts also mention country's gradual digitalization process
which is scheduled to be completed by 2015.
news.am
Aug 17, 2011
Armenia
Armenia is recognized the most favorable country for development of
media among the Caucasian states, says the Media Sustainability Index
(MSI) report issued by IREX experts.
The IREX experts gave Armenia 2.09 score, the highest score among the
South Caucasian states. Azerbaijan's score is 1.65, whereas Georgia's
is 1.85.
The report says three major developments in 2010 significantly impacted
Armenia's media sector and received a lot of attention by the MSI
panelists. Among them is decriminalization of defamation, blog launched
by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and increasing influence of online
periodicals, citizen journalists, and social networking platforms.
"The last development incited tangible changes in a number of cases.
To name a few, plans to demolish the summer hall of a downtown movie
theater were revoked; amendments to the country's maternity-leave
laws limiting maternity welfare payments were abandoned; and
several teachers were forced to resign after videos of their
beating schoolchildren were widely circulated online. Perhaps the
most unexpected event of the past year, the forced resignation of
the Yerevan mayor following rumors that he beat an officer in the
president's protocol department, could also be partly attributed to
online media and the blogger community, which heavily covered the
incident prior to the resignation," the report says.
The experts also mention country's gradual digitalization process
which is scheduled to be completed by 2015.