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Azerbaijani Press Council publicizes results of first monitoring on determining general tendencies in media

07 February 2008 15:05 (UTC +04:00)

The council told APA that the monitoring covered January of this year. 25 leading daily and weekly editions were monitored. These are newspapers Azerbaijan, Khalg qezeti, 525-ci qezet, Zerkalo, Yeni Musavat, Azadlig, Gun sahar, Ekho, Sharg, Ses, Adalat, Baki xheber, Khalg jebhesi, Olaylar, Respublika, Ekspress, Iki sahil, Merkez, Yeni Azerbaijan, Impuls, Paritet, Palitra, Kaspi, Khazar and Reyting.

The monitoring determined most preferred materials, sources of reports and violation of Behavior Code of Azerbaijani journalists.

1. Classification according to the type of news:

H	News type	Number of reports
1	Political	6321
2	Social	9044
3	Economic	4925
4	Culture-art	3548
5	Official	3643
6	Education	4352
7	Criminal	3967
8	Sport	4540
9	Health	1229
10	Religious	1206
11	Show-business	2781
12	International	3969
13	Related to mass media	1627
14	Military	1385

52537 materials have been totally classified in the table.

2. Information sources of the monitored mass media:

H	Source of information	Number of reports
1	Government agencies and self-management bodies	9081
2	Public organizations, NGOs	6682
3	Parties	3486
4	Local media outlets	12967
5	International news agencies, websites	2712
6	Secret source	83

The monitored newspapers published 35011 reports within a month.

Media most prefers the reports of government agencies. Approximately 90% of 6682 reports about NGOs and public organizations are based on the press releases or statements of these organizations.

Journalists get few reports from parties. They prefer comments and analyses, and sometimes change and publish materials of one another.
Leading publications of the country most use reports of Azeri-Press Information Agency (APA)

Quoting secret sources is rarely recorded in the media. Reyting newspaper most used materials of secrets sources in January. Azadliq, Yeni Musavat newspaper also published materials quoting secret sources.
Behavior Code of Azerbaijani journalists was violated 287 times. The principle of â€œserving the truth, accuracy and impartialityâ€ was violated most. No fact on plagiarism was recorded during the monitoring.