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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The present Soft Censorship report differs somewhat from the customary format of previous reports.
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]