Media Influence Matrix 2021 Ukraine lags behind EU countries in its technological development. Some 29% of its population has no internet access, and there is a gaping digital divide between the urban and the rural population. Only 44% of the rural population is online, compared to 76% of urbanites. Although connections fees are affordable, internet…
The country reports in the Media Influence Matrix series aim to research the changing landscape of: government and policy space, with a focus on the changes in the policy and regulatory environment; funding, with a focus on the key funding sources of journalism and the impact on editorial coverage; technology in the public sphere, with a focus on how…
A study written by our Director Marius Dragomir was used to develop the investment strategy of a newly launched fund aimed at combating media capture and supporting plurality of news sources across Europe. CMDS Director Marius Dragomir’s 2019 study Media Capture in Europe, published by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), played an important role in the creation of Pluralis, a new fund…
Ukraine in Media Influence Matrix Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991 when people had access to only a few television channels, the television market in the country has flourished as a plethora of new commercial channels launched operations. Currently, the most popular television channels are controlled by the four largest media groups in the country: Media…
Media Influence Matrix 2021 Executive Summary Media Influence Matrix: United Kingdom (this is an excerpt from the upcoming UK Media Influence Matrix Final Report) The UK media is probably one of the most researched media systems in the world, for reasons both positive and negative. From offering a model for high-quality ‘public service broadcasting’ to…
United Kingdom in Media Influence Matrix Des Freedman, UK project coordinator (this is an excerpt from the UK Media Influence Matrix Final Report) This report provides a comprehensive and timely overview of the UK media landscape with a particular emphasis on the key institutions shaping the regulatory environment, the funding and consumption of news, and…
Media Influence Matrix 2021 Global tech giants and British media players are fighting tooth and nail to access market resources. The result of this struggle will make or break journalism in the UK. Technology companies have witnessed in the last year several actions aimed at reigning them in. A newly introduced global corporate tax would…
Media Influence Matrix 2021 Public funding is the most suited, if not sole, future for Britain’s public interest journalism. But both policymakers and commercial media seem to oppose it. A new CMDS report sheds light on the latest trends in journalism funding in the UK. The pandemic has been accelerating some of the trends that the British media environment began to…
In his new study, Marius Dragomir, Director of the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC), introduced a new tool to assess the editorial independence of the world’s state media and finds that nearly 80% of 546 state-administered media companies in 151 countries lack editorial independence. Going beyond the reductive dichotomy of state-controlled outlets vs independent public…