After presidential elections Czech media see surge in subscriptions
Some media outlets in have seen 400 % rise in subscriptions.
Eva Mošpánová is a journalist for the Czech public radio, she writes for the iRozhlas.cz, which is a fairly newly developed news website of the broadcasting company.
For the Check Your Facts podcast we chose to speak with Eva, because she knows the Czech media market, she has covered it in the past writing for Marketing & Media magazine and also worked for other different media outlets.
Czech republic has seen many changes in the media landscape in the last few years, when oligarchs and politicians bought up stakes in traditional media and many journalists left them to start independently operated smaller news operations.
Also the fake news problem has been a huge problem as many alternative media emerged and some of them became widely popular.
After the Czech presidential elections a wave emerged, similar to the one in USA in the end of 2017, when people started publicly sharing that they bought a subscription for a newspaper or online website they trust.
We talked about all of this and much more, all things concerning Czech media.
Listen to our interview:
Other useful links and other reading
Some Zeman supporters attack Czech reporters [ABC News]
The Czech Republic’s Fake News Problem [The Atlantic]
The Explainable Rise of Czech Fake News [CodaStory]
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