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 […]

Author: Gábor Polyák In the past weeks, several important international analyses have dealt with Hungary, including, among other things, the media situation here. Apart from a superficial press statement or two, […]

Mérték Media Monitor first compiled a Press Freedom Index (PFI) in 2012. The comprehensive PFI is made up of the results collected from three parallel research projects. We surveyed three […]

Press freedom in Europe is facing a widespread and growing threat by “soft” censorship that includes governments’ use of financial power to pressure news media, punish critical reporting and reward […]

The adoption of the new media laws in 2010 not only laid the foundation for the complete overhaul of the Hungarian media system but at once represented one of the […]

The European Union (EU) is premised on the respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, and human rights – including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. EU […]

Everything that could possibly be said about the media law was said over and over again in this chamber since their birth. All that was said then remains true to […]

The European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, whose portfolio includes media affairs, has once more summed up the problems surrounding the Hungarian media system. Fidesz politician Gergely Gulyás has publicly responded to Kroes’s […]

Executive Summary In the period between 15 February and 25 May only 8% of news dealt in some shape or form with the European Union. More than two-thirds of news […]