SOVEREIGNIST MEDIA POLICY (Soft Censorship 2024)
Mérték Media Monitor is now publishing its 10th Soft Censorship report. In its first year, 2013, the report was prepared as part of an international project in cooperation with WAN-IFRA […]
Mertek Booklets: Soft Censorship
A MEDIA SYSTEM ABANDONED: The Hungarian media under siege and without support (Soft Censorship 2023)
Freedom of expression is essential for well-functioning democratic societies, and one of the basic conditions for this is that journalists can do their work safely. If they are harassed, abused, […]
The Frozen Media System – Soft Censorship 2022
The problems of the Hungarian media situation have been widely known for years now. Systemic changes had been implemented already in the 2010s. By now, the contours of the new […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Capturing Them Softly – Soft Censorship and State Capture in the Hungarian Media
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 […]