ECHO Research presented the report on the results of the media
monitoring in Armenia, which evidences the balanced coverage of the
pre-election campaign
February 8, 2008
Yerevan /Mediamax/. International ECHO Research Company presented in
Yerevan today report on the results of the media monitoring in Armenia
for the first week of the pre-election campaign, which evidences its
balanced coverage.
Mediamax reports that the European Foundation for Democracy, based in
Brussels, ordered the realization of the monitoring. `MediaBrand’
Company was the partner of ECHO Research in Armenia.
`The research showed that the Armenian media are free in general’, the
Head of the ECHO Research Department Karen Prichard stated. `The
TV-channels quite fairly distribute the broadcast time among the
candidates, and the press is quite diverse’, she stated, noting at that
the presence of considerable differences in the coverage of the
broadcast and print media companies.
The monitoring covered the basic news programs and interviews of the
presidential candidates of 8 broadcast media: The Public TV of Armenia,
`Armenia’, `Second Armenian TV-Channel’, `Yerkir-Media’, `Kentron’,
`Shant’, the Public Radio of Armenia and the Armenian Service of
`Liberty’ Radio Station, and 12 newspapers: `Golos Armenii’, `Agz’,
`Hayots Ashkhar’, `Aravot’, `Hayastani Hanrapetutyun’, `Haykakan
Zhamanak’, `Novoye Vremya’, `Iravunk’ `168 Zham’, `Hayq’,
`Zhamanak-Yerevan’ and `Chorord Ishkhanutyun’.