Media regulation
Monitoring the implementation of the European Media Freedom Act (II.)
EMFA’s Hungarian implications and impact on the Hungarian legal environment Monitoring Report II. (November 23, 2025) Created by: Balint Barki, Gabor Polyak In cooperation with Mérték Media Monitor and Connect Europe, […]Monitoring the implementation of the European Media Freedom Act (I.)
1st report: The EMFA’s relevance to Hungary and its impact on the Hungarian legal environment August 8, 2025 In cooperation with Mérték Media Monitor Analysis Workshop and Connect Europe Association […]Media Investments and their Impact on the Media Market and the General Public in Central Eastern Europe
Joint research project in V4 countries Western European investors had a key role in the transformation of CEE media systems, after 1990. This process was shaped by economic, cultural and […]Hungarian Media Law
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 […]Disrespect for European Values in Hungary, 2010-2014
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 […]Publicness revisited – a dialogue for a future media regulatory framework
Does it even make sense to talk about the potential directions of progress in terms of media regulations/policy when the decision-maker does not evince even the slightest hint of openness […]Publicness revisited – a dialogue for a future media regulatory framework 2. – Content regulation
The Mertek Media Monitor launched a public dialogue that lasts several months. The objective of the debate is to reach and engage the widest possible range of stakeholders and to […]What do we expect from media regulations?
The Mertek Media Monitor launched a public dialogue that lasts several months. The objective of the debate is to reach and engage the widest possible range of stakeholders and to […]Report on the content regulation in the practice of the Media Council (Part 2)
The following study is based on the examination of official resolutions passed by the media authority during the period of May to October, 2012, and is compatible in its structure […]Report on the frequency tendering by the Media Council (Part 2)
For this Report, Mertek looked at the frequency bids evaluated by the Media Council between the end of 2011 and Fall 2012, primarily through decisions and documents disclosed by the […]
Freedom of the press
The Repression of Independent Media in Hungary, 2010-2025
Executive Summary Since 2010, as part of its broader effort to consolidate executive power, the Hungarian government has radically restructured the media sector by capturing large segments of the market […]An Infected Media System
The Sources of Political Information in Hungary Ever since 2013, Mérték Media Monitor has been performing recurring surveys to learn about the media consumption and information patterns of the Hungarian […]Centralised Media System – Soft Censorship 2018 (Mertek Booklets 18)
Observers of the Hungarian media situation have often remarked in recentyears that it cannot get any worse. It was difficult to imagine that the state of democratic public sphere could […]Sources of political information in Hungary; Trends, 2015-18
About the research The research identified the sources of political and public affairs information in Hungary, incl. the role of Facebook and the assessment of the media situation. The survey […]An Illiberal Model of Media Markets – Soft Censorship 2017 (Mertek Booklets 15.)
The present Soft Censorship report differs somewhat from the customary format of previous reports.State advertising 2006-2017
Mérték Média Monitor has been analysing the changes in state advertising spending for years. Our regularly published Soft Censorship report reviews the developments of the foregoing year, but it is […]Soft Censorship in Hungary in 2016: When Propaganda Rules Public Discourse
Liquidated Diversity Népszabadság terminated, Class FM removed from its frequency, TV2 turned into a character assassination machinery, the public media are aggressively disseminating anti-migrant propaganda – as far as the eye can […]The sources of political information in Hungary
The state of the media structure in the time before and after its transformation The survey research aimed at identifying the sources of political and public affairs information was conducted […]Soft Censorship Hungary 2015
Introduction – Crony capitalism and the media market The methods and trends of the state’s interventions in media policy and the media system after 2010 were both a reflection of […]The State of Press Freedom 2014
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 […]
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