RSU researchers launch podcasts series on how people in Latvia and Estonia experience and think about the media

The podcast series is aimed at media professionals, researchers, policy-makers and anyone interested in better understanding the relationship between the media and society in Latvia and Estonia.

In the podcast series, we will talk to journalists, editors, media managers, media and society researchers, media policy makers, as well as media users and civil society representatives from both countries to explore what is similar and what is different about how people in Latvia and Estonia use and think about the media.

Līga Ozoliņa,
Researcher at the RSU Social Sciences Research Centre,
creator of the podcast series

Each episode features two guests - one from Latvia, one from Estonia. The series is in English. The first episode features a cross-border journalist couple - Inga Spriņģe, founder of the investigative journalism centre Re:Baltica, and Holger Roonemaa, Estonian investigative journalist and editor, head of the investigative journalism team at the news website Delfi in Estonia. The topic of the episode: What is it like to be a journalist in Latvia and Estonia? In the next episode, we will continue this conversation by inviting journalism scholars from both countries.

The podcast series is made as part of the recently launched research project ‘Making sense of media: a non-media-centric and open-ended approach to the study of media-related experiences and perceptions’ at the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Social Sciences Research Centre. The grant project aims to explore how the wider socio-cultural and political context influences how people use and experience media, and how their perceptions and beliefs about media work are shaped. It is designed as a comparative study of the relationship between media and society in Latvia and Estonia. The project is led by Jānis Juzefovičs, lead researcher at the RSU Social Sciences Research Centre.

The podcast series is recorded at the RSU student media network Skaļāk!. The first episode is available on all major podcast streaming platforms from 13 September.