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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

IPI Report: Hungary Represents the Most Sophisticated Model of Media Capture

A new report by the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) confirms that Hungary continues to represent “the most sophisticated model of media capture” within the EU and that “rather than take any steps to implement the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), the Hungarian government has framed it as IPI Report: Hungary Represents the Most Sophisticated Model of Media Capture