Euromedia Ownership Monitor. Luxembourg Country Report, 2025

Luxembourg is the size of a metropolitan region (2,586 km²) and hosts a population of 672,000 inhabitants (Statec, 2024, p. 7). This relatively small market should prevent the existence of a plural media offering coverage on a purely economic basis — especially in a context of a medium-term reduction in commercial resources (Luxembourg Ad'Report, 2013, 2023). Nevertheless, the country has around 500 accredited professional reporters (Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, 2024), which equates to one for every 1,300 inhabitants. By comparison, there is around one accredited reporter for every 2,000 inhabitants in the adjacent and large French media market (AJEF, 2021). The number of media outlets these professionals work for in Luxembourg has increased over the last two decades. The current analysis of media ownership and pluralism in the Grand Duchy focuses on the three main components of the media environment. First, RTL, Europe's largest commercial broadcaster, which produces and broadcasts news for the country. Second, the media outlets organized around two main press publishers: Mediahuis Luxembourg and Editpress. Third, media controlled by other owners that broadens what is vailable to the public in terms of the agenda and points of view. For each type of media, the focus is on the construction of the business model, the ownership and executive control, the audience reached, and the state support.