Jakilaitis ranked as Lithuania's most influential media figure

Lithuania's elite sees Edmundas Jakilaitis, the host of the public broadcaster LRT's TV show Dėmesio Centre (In Focus), as the country's most influential media figure, new portal Delfi.lt reported on Friday.

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According to a survey of the country's elite, Andrius Tapinas, columnist at Delfi.lt, is ranked as number two and Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė, the news portal's editor-in-chief, is in third place.

A separate poll of the general public also placed Jakilaitis at the top of the list, followed by journalist Rimvydas Valatka at number two and Tapinas at number three, it said.