{"id":277654,"date":"2019-05-31T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=f2322fd20af8ad42253955ab2cadc5f6"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:18:20","slug":"an-addis-standard-analysis-said-real-press-freedom-needed-commercial-media-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277654","title":{"rendered":"An Addis Standard analysis said real press freedom needed commercial media reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Addis Standard published Elshadai Negash\u2019s analysis arguing that a year of political opening was not enough if Ethiopia\u2019s commercial media system stayed financially shackled and underdeveloped.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-597608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An Addis Standard analysis said real press freedom needed commercial media reform\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as media analysis archive, the essay dates reform-era debate about structural limits on Ethiopian journalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/addisstandard.com\/analysis-press-freedom-in-ethiopia-from-vice-to-hot-property\/\">Addis Standard<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Press freedom in Ethiopia: From vice to hot property&nbsp;&nbsp;addisstandard.comReal Press Freedom in Ethiopia depends on liberating the commercial shackles on a stunted media system. Elshadai Negash , For Addis Standard. A year of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":597608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754994,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277654\/revisions\/754994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}