The evolution of mediaownership regulation in Croatia

This paper aims to describe the evolution of media ownership regulation in Croatia with ‎the aim of assessing whether these developments have supported the promotion of media pluralism.‎ This research is underpinned by the premise that transparency in media ownership – one of the key ‎prerequisites for media pluralism (Borges & Christophorou, 2024), remains insufficiently achieved. The ‎paper shows that Croatia has come a long way from a quite restrictive approach in regulating media‎ ownership, both in terms of openness of the media market and media ownership transparency, to‎ the situation as it stands today. However, certain gaps in the media ownership regulation still exist,‎ particularly in relation to the enforcement mechanisms and the allocation of clear institutional‎ responsibilities for monitoring and sanctioning non-compliance.‎