Argentina’s media: Big business for a few

NewsBuenos Aires, April 10, 2019 – Leading media outlets in Argentina are in the hands of only a few companies, which determine what the vast majority of 44 million Argentinians watch, read and listen to. The four largest conglomerates concentrate almost half of the national audience across all types of media, with 25% of it covered by one of them, Grupo Clarín, alone. Moreover, the current economic crisis, as well as the absence of state policies to reduce its effects and legislation favoring large media holdings, has been financially suffocating critical journalism, thus limiting the Argentinians’…

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