Politics and the Public Media in Kosovo

The Radio Television of Kosovo is the only media company in Kosovo that bears the status of the public broadcaster. This study focuses on how politics is represented in the information that was broadcast by RTK during its first years of functioning as a public media of an independent state. The study argues that the instrumentalisation of the RTK by the political factors is achieved through legislation, which fails to provide long-term solutions for its funding, and which centralizes the process of electing the RTK managing body only at the political decision-making level. Within the RTK, the instrumentalisation by politics is reflected in the programmatic content and in the position held by news journalists and editors.