Reports

Research

Media regulation in Romania remains an openly political affair where chaos rather than strategy and expertise rules.

Bosnia’s Professional Liars

August 21, 2019

The fake news phenomenon hasn’t spared the Balkans. In Bosnia & Herzegovina, it fuels a lucrative industry.

Funding Journalism in Georgia: One Government, Two Families and Two Brothers

August 12, 2019

Program - Research

Georgian independent journalism is struggling in a highly politicized media industry where the government and a few wealthy businesspeople call the shots.

SPP Students Present at the Biggest Media Research Event

July 23, 2019

Mackenzie Nelson and Ifra Asad launched in Madrid the report they wrote as part of their class at CEU.

Kyrgyz Media Policy: It’s All the President’s Men

July 19, 2019

Research

The environment in which journalists operate in Kyrgyzstan has improved significantly after a new president took the country’s helm in 2017. However, the country’s media remain tied to the government’s apron strings, according to a newly released Media Influence Matrix report.

How to Build an Authoritarian Internet Culture: The Pakistan Model

July 5, 2019

Program - Research

Technology companies were hoped and expected to liberate the world and give journalism a platform to operate freely. But in Pakistan, they have become a policing tool.

Reuters Institute Publishes Digital News Report 2019

June 12, 2019

Partner - Research

This year's report, surveying 75,000 people in 38 countries, looks at trust, concern over misinformation, news avoidance, populism's impact, top brands, how people access news and much more. The Hungarian chapter was written by Eva Bognar, Senior Program Officer and Researcher at Center for Media, Data and Society.

Media Capture in Europe: MDIF Publishes New Report by Dragomir

May 27, 2019

Media Development Investment Fund has published a major report, Media Capture in Europe, written by Marius Dragomir, Director of Center for Media, Data and Society, that examines the extent of media capture in Europe and how it is undermining democracy in many parts of East and Southeast Europe.

Who’s Funding Romanian Journalism?

May 3, 2019

Program - Research

A new generation of brash journalism outlets challenge the highly concentrated media system in Romania. But many of them remain highly vulnerable, according to Funding Journalism: Romania, the most comprehensive analysis of the country’s media in decades, released today by CMDS.

Media Impact Funders Releases New Report on Global Media Philanthropy

March 27, 2019