Freedom of expression is essential for well-functioning democratic societies, and one of the basic conditions for this is that journalists can do their work safely. If they are harassed, abused, […]
Who we are We are a group of independent researchers, lawyers, and economists working on various fundamental issues related to media freedom and media pluralism in Hungary. The EMFA Monitor […]
The problems of the Hungarian media situation have been widely known for years now. Systemic changes had been implemented already in the 2010s. By now, the contours of the new […]
The journalist of Magyar Hang spent weeks in the library to leaf through the 2020 editions of Hungarian political weeklies. He wasn’t curious about the articles published that year; instead, […]
Written by Gábor Polyák Reading the draft of the European Media Freedom Act published last September, it is clear that the European Union also wants to respond to the challenges […]
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 […]
The research paper summarizes the main findings of local media research in the V4 countries. The special focus of the research was the municipal media, but local and reginal commercial […]
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 […]
In the following, we will summarise how the popular Krónika news show, which airs at noon every day on the public service station Kossuth Rádió, reports about Russia’s war on […]
Numerous articles by journalists have looked at the Hungarian Television’s (that is the public service television channels) reports on the war and its take on the news as it emerges […]