Proposal of the New Law on Electronic Media: Advantages and Disadvantages

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung organised on December 15th, 2020, an online discussion event on the advantages and disadvantages of the proposal for the new law on electronic media. The media representatives Zdravko Kedžo, PhD, Chairman of the HRT Programming Council, Marc Puškarić, CEO of RTL Croatia and Dražen Ćurić, editor-in-chief of a Croatian news portal, shared their views with Hendrik Sittig, Head of Media Programme SEE of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Sofia, about the proposal of the New law on electronic media and the challenges associated with it. The focus was on the work of electronic publications (internet portals), commercial television and Croatian Radio Television (HRT), considering the position of journalists and the new responsibility of editors for content and reader comments.