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Marius Dragomir on Hungarian Media Capture in RFE/RL

April 2, 2022

Hungary is “a textbook case” of media capture in which Fidesz has achieved control of “more or less all the prominent media in the country,” our Director Marius Dragomir told RFE/RL.

Building Bridges with the Global Media: Lessons from a Syrian Information Center

Matt Broomfield, co-founder of the Rojava Information Center (RIC), an independent, volunteer-staffed organization based in North East Syria discusses on a new CMDS blog entry the importance of a local perspective in war reporting.

Roxana Radu Contributes to Paris Peace Forum Report on AI and the Global South

April 1, 2022

CMDS Fellow Roxana Radu has contributed to a new report by the Paris Peace Forum and Initiate: Digital Rights in Society on artificial intelligence governance and the Global South.

Dragomir and Rozgonyi Discuss Freedom of Expression in Central and Eastern Europe

March 31, 2022

CMDS Director Marius Dragomir and a member of our Media Policy Hub Krisztina Rozgonyi discussed freedom of expression at an event organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Berlin, a recording of which is now available.

Marius Dragomir Discusses State Media Research in New Podcast

March 30, 2022

It is worrying that in countries where independent public media traditionally had a central role in the media ecosystem, we have seen negative developments, CMDS Director Marius Dragomir said in a new podcast by the Public Media Alliance.