Central European Journal of Communication

ABSTRACT: The article addresses the issue of the media’s access to public information in the context of their informational and monitoring roles vis-à-vis those in power. The hypothesis is that the normative framework in Poland was not a sufficient guarantor of such access for the media and journalists because, in practice, the authorities did not implement the statutory legal requirements in terms of providing access to public information. The case study method used in the article enables the authors to show that the barriers to access to information in recent years are mainly due to the instrumental treatment of information policy as an effective tool of governance and the perception of the media as a competitor in the creation of the public narrative.

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