Open-source investigation in conflict news “simultaneously opens up and limits opportunities for eyewitness images as a platform for voice,” our Fellow Sandra Ristovska writes in a new paper for the journal Journalism.
In a commentary published in five different languages, CMDS Director Marius Dragomir looks at why Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speaks out against the war in Ukraine while ordering his media to spread pro-Russian misinformation.
Many journalists expect a fall in advertising revenue, the closure of media outlets and increasing government control over the media as a consequence of the war in Ukraine, a new CMDS report finds.
CMDS Director Marius Dragomir analyzes the 30 years of post-communist history of media and journalism in Romania in a chapter in a new volume on the Romanian political system.
The International Press Institute (IPI) today published a new report in collaboration with CMDS written by regional media experts and investigative journalists on the investment of Hungarian capital in foreign media and the implications for the spread of Viktor Orbán’s “illiberal” model of media control.