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The report was published this month by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Freedom (CMPF) at the European University Institute in Florence. The CMDS team was led by Center researcher Amy Brouillette, together with media and legal experts Peter Bajomi Lazar, Judith Bayer and Borbala Toth. CMDS conducted the country case study for Hungary, and the analysis showed Hungary as a 'high risk' for media pluralism, alongside Italy and Greece.

In a public lecture hosted by CMDS on January 22, Kevan Harris, Associate Director of Princeton University's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, offered a fresh perspective on modern Iranian politics using field theory. The theory, which is rooted in works by authors such as Pierre Bourdieu, Neil Fligstein, and Doug McAdam, focuses on the importance of fields as “constructed social arenas in which collective and individual actors with varying resources vie for advantage.”