Blikk

MFRR and Médiafórum Call for New EU Media Board to Assess Blikk Merger With Pro-government Media Group

The undersigned Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners and Médiafórum today raise alarm about the recent acquisition of Hungary’s most-read tabloid newspaper by a pro-government media group and calls on the newly established European Board for Media Services to launch an assessment of the merger and its potentially negative impact on media pluralism in Hungary. … MFRR and Médiafórum Call for New EU Media Board to Assess Blikk Merger With Pro-government Media Group

Government-aligned Indamedia Buys Blikk

Ringier is selling almost its entire Hungarian portfolio—including one of the most visited news portals and several women’s magazines—to the Indamedia Group. The transaction is particularly significant because it transfers ownership of the tabloid Blikk, one of Hungary’s most widely used news sources, to Indamedia, a company closely aligned with the government. Indamedia owns, among … Government-aligned Indamedia Buys Blikk