The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) today launch the third in a new series of Media Capture Monitoring Reports for 2025, this time putting the spotlight on Greece. The report reviews developments regarding media capture in the Mediterranean country in 2025 and examines Greece’s compliance with the European…
The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) today launch the second in a series of Media Capture Monitoring Reports for 2025, examining the state of play in Bulgaria. The report reviews developments regarding media capture in the country in 2025 and examines Bulgaria’s compliance with the European Media Freedom…
The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) today jointly launch a new series of Media Capture Monitoring Reports, with Hungary the first country report to be published. The new report reviews developments regarding media capture in the country in 2025 and examines Hungary’s compliance with the European Media Freedom…
The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) has released the Humanitarian Crisis Coverage Report, a data-driven study examining how some of the world’s influential media cover ten of the world’s most severe humanitarian emergencies — from Sudan and Ethiopia to Ukraine and Gaza. The study combines computational and qualitative media research, analysing 78,667 news articles drawn from leading…
The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) has released today Technology, the Public Sphere and Journalism in Russia, a new country study authored by Leonardo Ingannamorte and edited by Marius Dragomir as part of MJRC’s ongoing Media Influence Matrix project. The report offers a detailed analysis of how Russia’s digital transformation has reshaped its information ecosystem—from the early spread of the Internet…
For updates on the project, including the most recent country reports generated following its 2025 methodological revamp, please consult the Media Influence Matrix new digital platform. Freedom of speech and press is a relatively new phenomenon in Russia, guaranteed by the Constitution adopted in 1993. According to the document, censorship is expressly prohibited and freedom of…
This country report from the Media Influence Matrix project explores how technology has transformed Russia’s media system and public sphere over the past two decades. It traces the country’s digital evolution from the rapid spread of the Internet in the 2000s to the current era of state-dominated digital ecosystems and platform control. The study identifies three interlinked…
The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) has published the 2025 edition of its flagship State Media Monitor, a global study that tracks the editorial independence, funding and governance of state and public media worldwide. This year’s report shows a further decline in media independence, underscoring a continuing erosion that has persisted since monitoring began in…
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…
AUTHOR: Siya Zhang CITATION Zhang, S. (2025). Sensitive Prompts and Cultural Contexts: A Comparative Study of AI Chatbots in China and the West. New Ideas in Media and Communication, Vol 1, 36-62. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17182824 CORRESPONDENCE sz3302@columbia.edu DOWNLOAD ARTICLE ALL OPEN ACCESS All articles published in the New Ideas in Media and Communication of the Media and Journalism…