European minority language media and journalism: Framing their marginal reality

• Published in: International Communication Gazette
• Main Authors: Zabaleta, Iñaki, Ferré-Pavia, Carme, Gutierrez, Arantza, Fernandez, Itxaso, Xamardo, Nikolas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2014
• Subjects: Sámi
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048513516907; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1748048513516907; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1748048513516907

This study explores the traditional media systems (press, radio and TV), the distribution and number of full-time journalists and the relative weight of those variables with reference to the speaking population in 10 European minority languages with at least a minimum press and/or broadcasting system, at the end of the first decade of the new millennium. The 10 communities that represent the often invisible reality of minority language Europe are Basque, Catalan, Galician, Corsican, Breton, Frisian, Irish, Welsh, Scottish-Gaelic and Sámi. The unit of analysis is the linguistic community. Presumably, it is the first systematic and comparative analysis focused on European minority language media.