The publisher Mediaworks has suspended the publication of Népszabadság, Hungary’s leading opposition newspaper and highest circulation broadsheet. Though the measure was officially referred to as a suspension, in reality it […]

New Reports Detail Lack of Progress in Fight Against Soft Censorship Soft censorship continues to be a major threat to press freedom and the governments of Hungary, Mexico and Serbia […]

Published in Hungarian on 14th October 2015 Author: Ágnes Urbán  The MTVA continues to be the dark horse in the Hungarian media system. There is ever more money flowing into […]

Published in Hungarian on 1st July 2015 Author: Krisztina Nagy  The media authority’s content control activities focus on monitoring to verify compliance with quantifiable and formal requirements which are irrelevant […]

Published in Hungarian on 5th June 2015 Author: Krisztina Nagy As a result of the great wave of frequency tenders conducted in the previous years, the Hungarian radio map had […]

Published in Hungarian on 14th May 2015 By: Gábor Polyák According to Freedom House, the state of press freedom in Hungary has deteriorated further in 2014. We agree. By Gábor Polyák […]

Published in Hungarian on 9th March 2015 Author: Attila Mong   MTI pretends that there are professional arguments that justify its use of the term “economic immigration” (technically, a more accurate […]

Published in Hungarian on 25th February 2015 Author: Attila Mong The pronouncements of government politicians on the work of journalists are disconcertingly unisonous: media BDSM going from verbal violence over […]

Published in Hungarian on 20th January 2015 Author:  Attila Mong The coming round of changes at the public service media institutions, along with major adjustments in the distribution of state […]