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…
Down, but Not Out is a podcast mini-series on innovation in journalism, which brings you five cases of media organizations from around the world who were pushed into being creative in the face of hardship. Innovation is not just a buzz word used by tech companies and business gurus. Sometimes, it’s about finding new ways to…
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…
CMDS Director Marius Dragomir hosted a panel at RightsCon 2022 on how the business community can support a healthier info-sphere, with our Fellow John Masuku as one of the speakers. The panel discussed the findings of research that started a year ago, conducted in 61 countries, aiming to identify and promote ethical models of business engagement to combat disinformation…
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…
By Marius Dragomir 13 December 2019 For more than a decade, the government has meddled with Bolivia’s news media. Following the collapse of the Morales regime, the country’s journalists want to put paid to that, once and for all. In 2014, Virginie Poyetton, a researcher, found that more than half of Bolivia’s journalists have faced some form…
5 September 2019 Facebook appears to be the almost exclusive source of traffic for Hungarian misinformation websites, which fall on the spectrum from purely ideological sites to simple money-making machines. Their Facebook pages are stable, directing users to their ever-changing URLs. In early June 2019, Hungarian website Tv2-friss.com published a series of articles about the…
By Anya Schiffrin 30 August 2019 Much time and money have been spent on combatting misinformation through fact-checking. But it’s not clear whether it has any impact at all. Fact-checkers are taking credit for the circulation collapse of the doctored Nancy Pelosi video that circulated widely online after being aired on Fox news in the US and tweeted about…
28 August 2019 The Slovak misinformation industry is growing fast, buoyed by ads and e-commerce, but many people support them directly, too, through donations or tax designations. Before the Slovak presidential elections last March, the website Zem a Vek published an edited picture featuring Zuzana Čaputová, later elected the country’s president, with a hooked nose…
By MPM 17 June 2019 Radu Mazare pioneered independent journalism in the early days of post-communist Romania. But his excessive craving for fame, wealth and power led to his downfall. When the weekly Catavencu, a satirical publication named after a character in a play authored by Romania’s celebrated playwright Ion Luca Caragiale, launched its first issue…