Paul Goble
Staunton, Feb. 9 – The Bugun portal provides a comprehensive description of the most popular media outlets in four of the five Central Asian countries (Turkmenistan is not covered), the size of their staffs, the salaries they pay, and their readership/viewership as well as the shifting balances among languages and between print and electronic forms.
For those using these sources or seeking to learn about these countries, this is perhaps the best guide ever published as it compares the media in these countries and provides online addresses for these publications. It should be on the desk of all those working on that region (bugin.info/detail/samye-populiarnye-smi-tsen/ru).
Here is an example of the information provided about Kazakhstan’s Tengrinews.kz. It was founded in 2010, focuses on daily news, is privately financed, has approximately 50 staffers, has a pay scale lower than most other outlets in that country, issues news in both Russian and Kazakh, has an average of 1.5 million visitors monthly, and uses all the major social networks.
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