The issue of media ownership in Europe has been a heated topic of discussion since the 1990s, characterized by controversial elements such as corporate takeovers, government interference in coverage, inadequate funding, and attacks on journalists—each posing challenges to media independence and freedom. Despite some efforts by the European Union to address this issue, the results…
Across the world, public media is at the crossroads. According to the State Media Monitor, a project that covers 157 countries, “84 percent of 595 state and public media outlets worldwide now lack editorial independence”. The perils and pitfalls of this situation have been featured in a new op-ed authored by Marius Dragomir, the Director of…
With the publication of the European Media Freedom Act, the European Commission took a pivotal step in legislating the media field. Marius Dragomir, director of Media and Journalism Research center, welcomes the new act in his latest Euronews op-ed, but has some caveats to share, while explaining what EMFA needs to have impact on media capture….
In a recent op-ed in Euronews, titled “Hungarian case shows the EU needs a bulletproof media freedom law”, MJRC director Marius Dragomir discusses the applications and potential impact of the new media freedom law (EMFA) in captured media environments. Dragomir highlights the positive aspects of EMFA namely its inflexible nature that is likely to prevent…
In one of the latest decisions made by Twitter under Elon Musk’s rein, as of Tuesday night, National Public Radio (NPR) has been labeled as state-affiliated media. Such a development questions Twitter’s motivations as it puts NPR in the same category with government controlled/funded propaganda outlets such as Russia Today or Xinhua News Agency, reports…
In a new report for the Center for International Media Assistance, Marius Dragomir and a group of MJRC experts analyze the impactful ways that the private sector in CEE is engaging in efforts to counter disinformation and bolster independent journalism. The research consisted of two phases: one global mapping of good practices of engagement between private businesses and independent…
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…
Our director, Marius Dragomir moderated on 28 September 2022 a panel at the TrustCon conference in Palo Alto. Tittles “Can Journalists Make Tech Platforms More Trustworthy?”, the panel explored the impact that platform beat , “a new realm of watchdog journalism” (Phil Napoli) that has emerged in recent years, has on how tech platforms behave,…
“There is a need for a new vision of public service media,” our Director Marius Dragomir told Australian public service radio ABC. The program, which featured Dragomir, Paul Thompson, chief executive and editor- in-chief of Radio New Zealand, Jacinta Mwende Maweu, senior lecturer in philosophy and media at the University of Nairobi, and host Julian Morrow, focused on…
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…