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Courtney Radsch Re-Joins the Global Network Initiative

July 22, 2021

CMDS Fellow Courtney Radsch has re-joined the Global Network Initiative, this time as an independent academic member.

Miklós Haraszti on the Pegasus Scandal: We Did Not Think It Could Ever Happen Again

July 21, 2021

The Hungarian government uses the secret services against its own society, CMDS Fellow Miklós Haraszti told Hungarian newspaper Népszava in an interview about the Pegasus scandal.

Dragomir on the Pegasus Scandal

July 21, 2021

The Pegasus investigation shows us the extent to which governments break the law and interfere with journalists’ work, CMDS Director Marius Dragomir told Euractiv in a piece about the surveillance of journalists in Hungary, as revealed by the Pegasus Project.

GB News: The Rise of UK’s New Rightwing Media Isn’t Over Yet

In her latest article for Huck Magazine, Naomi Smith makes a parallel between the rise of  Rupert Murdoch's Fox News in the US and and the similarly right-wing GB News in the UK. While GB News is sometimes regarded as a laughable matter, Smith argues that Fox News was similarly dismissed when it was launched in the mid '90s. 

Attila Bátorfy Co-Authors Media Pluralism Monitor Report on Hungary

July 20, 2021

The narrative report of the Media Pluralism Monitor on Hungary, co-authored by CMDS Fellow Attila Bátorfy and Krisztián Szabó (ELTE), was published today.