Journalists under Pressure in Hungary: Media and Change Series

Type: 
Seminar
Audience: 
CEU Community + Invited Guests
Speaker: 
András Pethő
Building: 
Oktober 6 u. 7
Room: 
201
Academic Area: 
European Media
Journalism
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 12:45pm
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Date: 
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 12:45pm to 1:30pm

The first meeting in the Media and Change Series will have András Pethő discussing the state of independent media in Hungary today. Truthful and hard-hitting journalism has always been in short supply in Hungary. Now with the space for independent media shrinking, the conditions have got even worse. Why has this happened? And what can those journalists, who do not want to give up their ideas and principles, do?

András Pethő spent much of his 12-year-long journalism career at Origo, with some longer stints abroad. He worked for 15 months for the BBC World Service and did two journalism fellowships in the United States. In 2013 he spent 8 months with the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He is a two times winner of the Soma Award, the prestigious annual award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary. He also received the monthly Quality Journalism Award three times. He resigned from Origo in June 2014, in protest to the dismissal of the portal's editor-in-chief.