Civil Society Releases First Findings of Election Media Monitoring
22 July 2016
- A press conference on July 22, 2016, brought together representatives of the Georgian media, non-governmental and international organizations, and diplomatic missions.
Three civil society organizations – Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics, Internews – Georgia and Civic Development Institute (CDI), released the first media monitoring report ahead of the 8 October Parliamentary elections in Georgia.
Carlo Natale, Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union to Georgia, and Natia Natsvlishvili, UNDP Resident Representative a.i. in Georgia, welcomed participants of the press conference and then gave floor to media monitors who presented key findings of the first six weeks of media monitoring, May 20 –July 11.
The election media monitoring will go on through the end of November 2016 to assess performance of forty-six national and local media outlets – televisions, radio, print and online media. Next intermediate reports will be released in September and early October, prior to the election day. The final report will be published at the end of 2016.
The election media monitoring is supported by the European Union and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
A full version of the report is available online at: www.mediamonitor.ge
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