Dr Andrei Richter, Researcher Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava and Adjunct Professor of the Webster University in Vienna has joined our Fellowship program. Dr Richter has served as Director and a Senior Adviser at the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from 2011-2022. He has authored more than 250 publications on media law and policy in 12 languages,…
Fatima el Issawi has joined the Fellowship Program at the Media and Journalism Research Center. The focus of her research project at MJRC is to continue investigating the media activism nexus in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how the notion of resilience in the dynamics between dissenting actors in media and activism…
Sulochana Peiris, an independent documentary maker, researcher, and writer based in Sri Lanka, has joined our Fellowship program. Sulochana has over two decades of experience in media, advocacy, and peace-building fields. During early career years, Sulochana worked as a print and TV journalist, and subsequently, switched over to the not-for-profit sector where she was involved…
Zoltan Sipos, a journalist in a slow but steady transition into a managerial role, has joined Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) to lead our work on media development in captured environments. Editor-in-chief and manager of Átlátszó Erdély, an investigative journalism outlet catering to the Hungarian community of 1.2 million living in Transylvania, Romania, Sipos has been…
Marius Dragomir, the director of the Media and Journalism Research Center, spoke at a conference on media capture organized on 2 December 2022 in Prague. Hosted by the International Press Institute (IPI), the event gathered leading editors, journalists, media experts and representatives from media freedom organizations to discuss media capture and the need for a…
MJRC releases today a report on media regulation and policies in Mexico For decades, the media system in Mexico has been faced with two key structural problems, high levels of market concentration and clientelist practices as part of a system of collusion between the political power and business actors, according to a new report focused…
David Ruzicka has joined the Fellowship Program at the Media and Journalism Research Center where he will continue researching the problem of arbitrariness in the enforcement (or rather the lack of it) of ethical and legal standards like accuracy and impartiality in Visegrad Four countries. David Ruzicka is the Founding Editor of Datalyrics, a Prague-based…
A new report in the Media Influence Matrix analyzes key trends in Argentina’s media ownership and financing. Although the Argentinian media system is a dynamic market that comprises numerous media outlets of all types, there is a major difference between the large media groups that tend to have a national reach and the rest of…
The center is welcoming researchers and practitioners who work in the center’s fields of interest. We are glad to announce the launch of our Fellowship Program, which is open to both young and experienced researchers and practitioners in the media and journalism field. The fellowship program is centered around a research project that fellows will…
On 13-14 October 2022, the research group Novos Medios (New Media) at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) Faculty of Communications Sciences organized an academic workshop to present three major research projects. The workshop brought together a group of highly reputed academics from several universities in Spain. Two of the projects are run by…