Jaromír Volek

is a professor in the department of media studies and journalism in the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Articles

The market takes all

Czech Republic: Playing the game of media trumps

The most notable feature of the post-1989 media in the Czech Republic is the triumph of the market. So convincingly have economic imperatives taken over from editorial priorities, that even the quality press has been affected by “tabloidization”. Ideological domination has been replaced by the more sophisticated strategies of the market, regrets Jaromir Volek.