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 […]
Freedom of the press
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 […]
Gasping For Air – Soft Censorship in Hungarian Media 2014
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 […]