March 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination The goal of the joint initiative by Ténytár and Mertek Media Monitor was and continues to be to fight against […]

The 15 of February 2014 marked the official launch of the election campaign. In seeking to assess how often government and opposition politicians appear, respectively, in the media, as well […]

Our view is that something we might refer to as a culture of exclusionary speech is increasingly gaining ground in Hungary. Politicians and public intellectuals who question the equality of […]

Through our research we sought to attain a comprehensive picture of how and whether the press in Hungary is free and how the Hungarian media work. Though the questions we […]

The Soft Censorship Global Review is an international research project managed by the WAN-IFRA and the Open Society Foundations. Based on a common methodology, the research analyses the effects of […]

Mertek: The apropos of our conversation today is that last December Civil Radio publicly announced its plan to alter the way it operates. What’s this change about? Ákos Cserháti: The […]

Mertek Media Monitor has noted repeatedly that Hungary’s media market can be aptly characterised with the concept of state capture, which was coined by Transparency International. The Hungarian press – […]

On 21 November 2013 Hungary’s high court, the Curia, heard the case of József Spirk, a journalist working at the newsportal index.hu. The case dealt with an allegedly libellous statement […]

The domestic public media may be the most fitting terrain for demonstrating that no official censorship rules or censors reviewing each line intended for publication must be in place for […]

In December 2013, just before Christmas, an official announcement confirmed what had been previously rumoured for months. The German television channel ProSiebenSat1 sold its Hungarian subsidiary, the MTM-SBS Ltd., which […]