Our “Humanitarian Crisis Coverage Report”, which examines how media attention is distributed across ten major humanitarian emergencies and how closely coverage reflects the severity of these crises, was recently featured by ABC Australia, the Australian public service broadcaster. The report mentioned in a segment of Media Watch program focusing on the war in Ukraine and…
A new book, Governance Models in Public Service Media, will be published by Routledge at the end of 2025. The volume is co-edited by our director, Marius Dragomir, together with Ana María López-Cepeda and Carmen Costa-Sánchez. Governance Models in Public Service Media explores how European public service media can adapt their governance frameworks to a…
The British Academy has released a new report examining the upcoming renewal of the BBC Charter in 2027. Among the contributors is our director, Marius Dragomir, who authored a chapter on Spain’s public service media system. His analysis is intended to inform debates about how the BBC might reshape its funding model at a time…
On 22 September 2025, during the 7th Congress of the Polish Communication Association in Katowice, Poland, our director, Marius Dragomir, received the 2025 Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award for an outstanding publication in the field of media studies. The award, established in 2018, is conferred annually for exceptional scholarly contributions in the areas of…
Our center specializes in producing research on media systems, tracking ownership and influence, and promoting accountability—while making these findings accessible to all. To that end, we’ve launched a new way to engage with our work: audio briefs. We’re starting the series with concise audio summaries of ongoing research projects. The first features insights from the…
The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) is pleased to announce the upcoming expansion of the Media Capture Monitoring Report to include a Spanish edition, scheduled for release in autumn 2025. Developed in partnership with the International Press Institute (IPI), this annual report assesses the extent of media capture in EU Member States and evaluates…
Media capture by national governments—along with the takeover of regulatory bodies and the branding of critical journalists as foreign agents—is increasingly being used in parts of Europe to silence independent voices. This was the focus of the Press Under Pressure panel held in Bratislava in April 2025, part of the World Between the Lines festival,…
Our director, Marius Dragomir—who also serves as editor of the Media Capture Monitoring Report—has been awarded the 2025 Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award for his work on the Media Capture Monitoring Report, a research project conducted jointly by the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) and the International Press Institute (IPI). Dragomir co-authored with…
Our colleague Cersasel Cuteanu has just published a new article examining how the MAGA movement is unfolding in Romania. He explores how the Romanian government has been attempting (not always smoothly) to connect with U.S. Republicans and ensure Romania remains visible in American foreign policy. A significant moment: Romania’s goal to join the Visa Waiver…
In the last week of February, the Perry World House Center at the University of Pennsylvania organized a conference titled “Security at Stake: Media, Democracy, and Repression.” The event brought together a diverse group of experts—including policymakers, scholars, researchers, and journalists—to examine “the role of local and public media institutions in democracies and explore how…