Media Archives

Disinformation in the Georgian media: Different assessments for different media sources

21 May, 2018

In Georgia, supporters of the government and opposition often express contrasting opinions about the independence and reliability of specific news outlets. Based on the CRRC/NDI December, 2017 survey findings, this blog post looks at whether people think or not that the…

Partisanship and Trust in TV in Georgia

5 March, 2018

One of the outcomes of the stark polarization of news media sources globally is that people tend to align to the media outlets which resonate most with their ideological beliefs. In most cases, consumption of a particular ideological media source can only reinforce one’s…

Gender (in)equality on TV

25 December, 2017

Stereotypes are an inseparable part of every society, and present in many parts of everyday life. Georgian society is no exception in this regard. For example, some professions like teaching are stereotypically thought of as “women’s professions” while others like…

The Media in Armenia and Azerbaijan: Effective or Affective?

14 November, 2010

Written by Arpine Porsughyan. Re-posted from the Caucasian Knot. Many academics argue that the influence of the media is especially strong in environments where citizens depend on a limited number of news sources. In contrast, when citizens have alternative sources…

CRRC’s Media-Monitoring Project: TV Coverage of the Election Campaigns

31 August, 2010

How do the Georgian media frame political information for its viewers? This was an especially relevant question during the lead-up to the May 30th local elections, and a subject of much public debate. To add greater insight to this debate,…

More News & Numbers from CRRC

23 August, 2010

Over the last few weeks and months, we have regularly posted updates about what’s going on, and where we stumbled on information we thought was interesting. We think these are useful contributions: small snippets, searchable, easy to find through Google,…

Georgian Media as Business | Data Snapshots

11 December, 2009

In terms of the business findings, CRRC’s Media Survey (undertaken in September/October 2009) generated extensive data that is available to help media make good business decisions. One recent presentation, summarized here, focused on showing the diversity of data that is…

Freedom House Report | Democracy in the Caucasus

5 December, 2008

In June Freedom House released its 2008 annual Nations in Transit Report covering January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007. The Nations in Transit Report covers the democratic performance of the former Soviet Union, the former Soviet satellite states and the former Yugoslavia.