Media: owners and money

• The source is the register under Art. 7a of the Legal Deposit of Printed and Other Works and Disclosure of Media Distributors and Providers Act, kept by the Ministry of Culture. Media outlets fill in the declarations themselves; the ministry does not check them.
• A declaration filed in a given year covers the previous year. Amounts are as declared; the register states no currency, and the declared years were in leva, so we show leva and euro at 1.95583.
• Amounts are in leva unless the declaration names another currency; amounts in US dollars are not in the totals.
• This is not all of the media's income: the register holds the funding and contracts the law requires to be declared. A payment for advertising or coverage does not by itself prove political influence.
• The kind of payer (state, municipalities, EU, parties, foreign governments, foundations, platforms, companies) is read automatically from its name. When a contract went through an advertising agency, the payer is the client, not the agency.

The Ministry of Culture's register