Media owners have joined forces to set up the first media lobby association.
AMO, the Association of Media Owners has been set up and is represented by six media companies: Allied Newspapers Ltd, Media.Link Co. Ltd, MediaToday Co.Ltd, Sound Vision Co.Ltd, Standard Publications Co.Ltd and Union Print Co.Ltd.
AMO has been set up to lobby for print and digital media organisations and to protect and promote the general and special interests of its Members;
AMO aims to ensure that any legislation enacted, or regulations issued by the government or authorities, will not endanger the prosperity or impair the welfare of its Members and to promote, support or oppose, by creating a common front between the Members, any legislative or other measures which affect the interests of the Association and its Members.
The Association will aim to protect he economic structure of print and digital media owners, their moral and material rights and interests, in order to ensure the advancement of good quality journalism and hence solidifying the fundamental right of freedom of information;
AMO will to seek, obtain and raise funding and other forms of financial assistance for the local print and digital media industry, including via programmes and/or schemes maintained by national and/or European institutions;
AMO will work for the development of the diffusion of print, digital and other ancillary media as means of information and vehicles for advertising and to ensure the advancement and the sharing of knowledge to facilitate the operations of the Association;
And AMO will aim to establish and maintain dialogue with governments, institutions, business organisations, international agencies and accredited experts, and to establish contacts, liaise and conclude agreements of cooperation with other similar institutions or associations.
AMO is open to all those print and digital media organisations that are backed by a full-time newsroom of at least seven journalists and three media workers.