In May 2019 Addis Standard published Elshadai Negash’s analysis arguing that a year of political opening was not enough if Ethiopia’s commercial media system stayed financially shackled and underdeveloped.
The piece treated press freedom as more than the release of journalists, and it asked whether advertising, ownership, and distribution rules would let independent outlets survive.
Kept as media analysis archive, the essay dates reform-era debate about structural limits on Ethiopian journalism.
Sources: Addis Standard