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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday appointed Tomas Balžekas, a journalist and the owner of a magazine publishing business, Giedrė Švedienė, a former auditor general, and Norbertas Černiauskas, a historian, as new members of the LRT Council.
After en forcement of full ban on alcohol advertisement in Lithuania starting next year, producers intend to search for new ways of presenting their production to consumers, while local media, which generates a large share of income from such advertisement, has reconciled with the loss.
Tomas Balžekas, a former CEO of the 15min portal and BNS Lithuania, is buying the magazine publishing and website administration business of Žurnalų Leidybos Grupė (Magazine Publishing Group, or ŽLG), a leading Lithuanian magazine publisher, via his company Media Bitės.
Vitas Tomkus, owner of Respublikos Leidiniai (Respublika Publications) media group, is selling the controlling stake in Elta news agency.
Ramūnas Šaučikovas will become the CEO of 15min, one of the biggest news environments in Lithuania, and BNS Lithuania as of March 6.
The departure of Tomas Balžekas, so far manager of the Lithuanian media business belonging to AS Eesti Meedia, as manager of the 15min portal and the news agency BNS Lithuania will not change the course of the companies, the owner said Tuesday.
Tomas Balžekas, manager of 15min, one of the biggest news environments in Lithuania, and of the news agency BNS Lithuania, left office on Monday.
