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Call for Papers to the World Press Freedom Day 2018 Academic Conference

February 9, 2018

CMDS is an official partner this year of the UNESCO's annual World Press Freedom Day to be held on May 2. The topic of this year's conference organized around WPFD is the safety of journalists.

Apply to the 2018 CMDS Summer School

February 1, 2018

CMDS invites applications to its practice-based 2018 summer course on "Funding Journalism in the Digital Age" to be held at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary on July 2-6, 2018.

Media Ownership: Getting to the Heart of It

February 1, 2018

A new project developed by CMDS aims at a more sophisticated analysis of media ownership. It will go beyond numbers to shed light on “ideological concentration”, today’s worst pandemic in the world’s media markets.

Schudson: “Professional Journalism Will Survive the Post-Truth Era Because We Actually Aren’t in a Post-Truth Era”

January 29, 2018

In his inaugural lecture, Michael Schudson, who is a renowned expert of the history of journalism, media sociology and political communication and a firm optimist, suggests “that professional journalism will survive the post-truth era because we actually aren’t in a post-truth era, it will certainly outlast Donald Trump and it’s already demonstrating that it can adapt, even thrive in a digital era”.

Net Neutrality: Current State of Affairs and Main Players

January 26, 2018

CDMS launches a new line of research work focused on examining the existing legal provisions and regulations on net neutrality and their implementation in different countries. Read our introductory paper by our technology expert Zsuzsa Detrekoi.