‘지역신문 지원 조례(안)’ 비교분석을 통한 현실적 쟁점 고찰

Abstract

Support for local newspaper has been carried out in a public support level, after the special law of supporting local newspaper development in 2004. The public support for the local newspaper is the product of the government's will to improve the local newspaper by acquiring the opinion diversitiy in local community. Along with the central government's supporting policy for the local newspaper, regional governments also try to strengthen the competitiveness of the local newspaper by establishing the local newspaper supporting ordinance. After the first local newspaper ordinance was enacted in Gyeongsan Province in 2010, the same ordinance was established in municipal corporations like Busan, Chungnam and local governments like Seoul Dongjak gu, Gyeonggi Province Ujjeongbu. Also, the movement for enacting the local newspaper ordinance is very active in Gyeonggido, Chungcheongbukdo, Jeonlado, and Gwangju city. The common thing that is confirmed both in local communities in which the ordinance was established or is being under discussion is the acknowledgement that the support for the local newspaper is needed through the ordinance. However, due to the discordance in opinions about the supporting ordinance, the process of enacting the ordinance is undergoing the difficulties in some regional communities. Therefore, this paper reconsiders the realistic issue in the local newspaper supporting ordinance and finds the better solution by analyzing the ordinance which is either being actually performed or being under debates. After thorough analysis, five issues are recognized; first, whether internet newspaper is included in terms of coverage of supporting, second, absolute condition and priority condition in terms of the qualification of applying, third, the difference from the special law of supporting the local newspaper's development which is in a higher rank, fourth, securing finances after the enactment of the ordinance, fifth, establishing the committee for operating the ordinance. So this study emphasizes that select and concentration principal should be maintained in terms of the direction of the ordinance, that publicity budget of the regional communities should be connected with the support for the local newspaper in order to remove the cause of excessive establishment of local newspapers, and that independence and fairness of the local newspaper development committee should be secured. In order to solve the issues, the solutions with realistic base are first, to carry out the ordinance by dividing the subjects for the annual support of the local newspaper, second, to put more importance in employment security and contribution in local community such as tax, four major insurance, employment rate by having contests for individual businesses like covering a in-depth case or a special feature, and educating underprivileged class.