Changes of the Lithuanian periodical structure (1988-1995)

When a system of periodical press functioning under self-regulatory conditions and constantly influenced by escalating competition within the system and in the media sector, changes occur to groups of individual publications and new types of periodical press emerge. The aim of the paper is to identify changes in the system of periodical press in Lithuania in 1988–1995. The article aims to establish the effect of the periodical press of the Sąjūdis liberation movement upon the transformation of the periodical press system that was patronised by the Communist Party and existed until 1988. The author examined changes in structural features of various groups of publications amid the emerging new system of periodical press and determined the criteria applied in the classification of newspaper into typological groups. In analysis of the transformation process of the system of Lithuanian periodical press and functioning features of different types of publications, the author suggests dividing newspapers by 10 criteria that would clearly reveal the structural changes of the periodical press system and highlight development tendencies of such press