The role of media in the shaping of the Albanian national identity in the period between 1925-1944

The period after 1925 is characterized by a certain political stability that produced a favourable situation for the Albanian press which took full advantage of the moment. We can say this on account of the great number of newspapers and especially periodicals that proliferated during this period. It seems like the press found the “proper language” with the power whom it stang from time to time, but also flattered too, according to the ideological position of the medium. The common feature of the press between 1925-1944 was the consolidation of the Albanian national identity, as the state institutions were consolidating too. The press of this time seems to have responded to an internal national need for emphasizing those qualities that unified Albanians and oriented their integration within the Albanian state structures, although they might be part a culture beyond Albania’s state boundaries. Here I have in mind the dissociation of the Muslim Community from the Turkey-centered Caliphate, as well as the efforts of the Orthodox Community for gaining autocephality from the Istanbul Patriarchate