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The state of the local media market in V4 countries, with a focus on municipal media

Media market reviews tend to focus on analysing the national markets, while they often consider local markets to play a marginal role. The result is that the latter are often glossed over. Recent years have seen new expert discussions in Hungary that focus on a better understanding of the state of local discourse. This increased…

Hungarian News Monitoring, 2022 Election Campaign – Part 3

The fourth week of the campaign period has also concluded now. RTL’s news show is still the only one characterised by an effort to present various party platforms and to offer an objective and balanced coverage of the campaign. The public service television news show, which has been reduced to the role of a propaganda…

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