The Media Empire in Slovenia: Contemporary Masters of Information

The story about the Slovenian media is a story about the continual influence on the media of media owners and politics (with the government being one of the major media owners). It has a history that can be traced back to the early 1990s when Slovenia chose a specific form of media privatization. The present government’s involvement in the removals and appointments of supervisory and management boards members, editors-in-chief and editors should be considered within the wider context of shifts that occurred during the period of transition in Slovenia. Instead of leading to less influence of politics on the media, media privatization in Slovenia resulted in politics having an even greater influence than in the past.