World Press Freedom Day has been marked since the United Nations General Assembly declared it on May 3rd in 1993.

World Press Freedom Day has been celebrated to raise awareness of the importance of press freedom, one of the basic principles of human rights, make it a public domain, protect the right of the press to be independent, commemorate journalists who lost thier lives for press freedom, and protect the rights of journalists.

This year the World Press Freedom is marked with theme of “Press Freedom for the Good of the Future” in Mongolia. World Press Freedom Day was first marked in Mongolia at the Mongolian Free Democratic Journalists Association headed by Mongolia`s Cultural Leading Figure Ts.Dashdondov.

Year by year the range of media organizations are growing and World Press Freedom Day is popularized. In 2012, 469 media organizations including 126 newspaper, 92 magazines, 72 radio stations, 149 television channels and 30 web sites were running actively in Mongolia.

However, 469 media organizations for only 3 million people are too much but now the number of web sites that have been created since then are uncounted. Even though Mongolia is full of media sources, a reader is still not provided with a good sense of what is happening and what happened unless he or she reads from several media sources.

Despite the fact that the investment has increased in media in Mongolia, overall media is seen as a stairway to enter politics, to have power more than business. As a result the number of copy desks that make its owners ideologies is increasing in Mongolia.

Mongolia`s Media Law still does not include a concept of independent copy desk.  In Mongolia, a press is heavily influenced or largely owned by prominent political and business figures. Journalist who are obliged to report news and feature based on the principles of journalism are seen as a serfs.

Mongolia`s media still needs fair competitiveness and there is still no sign of creating a fair competitiveness environment.