Media plays a central role in forming relationships between members of minority and
majority communities. On the one hand there is access to information as key to the successful
integration of minority communities, and on the other there is the portrayal of minorities in
the media shaping the views of the general public. Issues related to the Georgian media and
minority communities have received little attention from practitioners and think tanks
working on minority-related issues. This working paper envisages analyzing issues related to
media and national minorities in Georgia in order to provide a comprehensive picture of the
current situation of minority media and of the impact of media on majority-minority
relations. To gather data on this topic, 30 interviews with various media and NGO actors both
in Tbilisi and the regions were conducted from October 2010 through April 2011.