Journalists from Baltics: Russia isn't our obsession, we define our own journalism

Three journalists from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania explain the current media situation in their countries.

Check Your Facts
Check Your Facts
2 min readDec 18, 2017

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On this week's and this year's last podcast episode we spoke to three journalists from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania about what is happening with media and journalism in their countries.

Liepa Zelniene is a political journalist for 15min in Lithuania. In 2016 she has started a fact checking unit inside her newsroom.

Marian Männi is a journalist, media analyst and data fan. She has worked for the biggest Estonian media and is the co-founder of a fixing agency called fixers.press.

Filips Lastovskis is a political journalist for Delfi in Latvia. He is interested in Education and European Union politics.

What have we talked about in this episode

  • Baltics media crash course 101
  • Public vs. private media journalism
  • Political influence
  • Russian influence
  • Best recent media developments

Check Your Facts podcast is produced by:

Marc Biskup @marcbiskup is a German digital journalist working on Social Media and Digital Projects at MDR Sachsen-Anhalt in Germany. Marc loves dancing to Northern Soul.
David Tvrdon @davidtvrdon is a Slovak digital journalist working as a product manager for online news at SME.sk in Slovakia. David loves cooking & eating Asian cuisine.

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