In a new report for the Center for International Media Assistance, Courtney Radsch analyzes global efforts at making Big Tech pay for the news they use and what they could mean for media development, media sustainability and press freedom, especially in developing countries. The report examines three types of policy interventions: taxation, competition policy and intellectual property, and…
Talking to Euractiv, the Media and Journalism Research Center Director Marius Dragomir argues that EU institutions are partly to blame for the rise of media capture in many countries in Central Europe. The article, which has been published in English and in German, summarizes the media situation in Serbia, where Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s childhood friend-turned billionaire Lőrinc…
In an episode of the New Arab Voice Podcast, Courtney Radsch discussed how citizen journalists took advantage of the unpreparedness of the regime in Egypt before the 2011 uprising. The episode features two examples of changing press freedom in the Middle East: Egypt and Tunisia. Courtney Radsch was invited to talk about the rise of citizen journalism in Egypt…
CMDS Advisory Board member Anya Schiffrin and Peter Cunliffe-Jones survey some of the fixes tried for dis- and misinformation in the Global South in a chapter in the new book Disinformation in the Global South. The volume, edited by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales, has been published by Wiley-Blackwell. It offers a geographically diverse collection of perspectives on the phenomenon of…
Media freedom, media capture and the opportunities for independent journalism in Central and Eastern Europe are some of the topics discussed by CMDS Director Marius Dragomir and Transitions executive director and editor-in-chief Jeremy Druker in the latest episode of the VoiCEE podcast. In the discussion, Marius Dragomir traces the current wave of deterioration of media freedom across the CEE…
We are happy to announce the launch of the State Media Monitor, the world’s state media database, the most complete state media database ever built. The database contains information on 546 state-administered media companies in 151 countries. The State Media Monitor offers data on state media outlets grouped by the region and country, as well…
Our Director Marius Dragomir was one of the presenters at the Sixth Expert Roundtable of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, discussing the role of public service media in countering disinformation. He presented his study on the sorry, sorry state of state media in 151 countries that he wrote in 2021 and was published by the Center for Media,…
Éva Bognár was interviewed on Klubrádió‘s evening news program about the Reuters Digital News Report 2022. Asked about why news avoidance is a problem, she said a healthy media environment is an important part of the healthy operation of a democracy, or of a community. Regarding the decreasing trust in the news, she pointed out a contradiction: while people…
Our director Marius Dragomir has produced State Media Monitor, the world’s state media database, the most complete state media database ever built. Available through the website Statemediamonitor.com, the database contains information on 546 state-administered media companies in 151 countries. The State Media Monitor offers data on state media outlets grouped by the region and country, as…
CMDS Fellow Kristina Irion has participated in an empirical study of filing complaints with Data Protection Authorities under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The study, commissioned by Access Now, examines the practices of data protection authorities related to facilitating the submission of data infringement complaints and handling such complaints. The study finds “a lack of precise information…