In a world dominated by government-controlled state and public media outlets, the looming specter of a series of intensifying conflicts presents an alarming peril to democratic societies just before a crucial election year, when people will elect their leaders in some 50 nations worldwide. In the past year, the government’s grip on state media has…
More than 84% of the world’s state media are government-controlled, according to a new report from the Media and Journalism Research Center issued today. The government control over the state media remained extremely high in the past year, according to data gathered using our State Media Matrix and published in a new report today. Some…
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…