{"id":468,"date":"2025-11-19T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/?p=468"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:33:43","slug":"ipi-jelentes-magyarorszag-a-kifinomult-mediaelfoglalas-modellje-az-eu-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/2025\/11\/19\/ipi-jelentes-magyarorszag-a-kifinomult-mediaelfoglalas-modellje-az-eu-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"IPI Report: Hungary Represents the Most Sophisticated Model of Media Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new report by the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) confirms that Hungary continues to represent \u201cthe most sophisticated model of media capture\u201d within the EU and that \u201crather than take any steps to implement the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), the Hungarian government has framed it as a tool of foreign interference and legally challenged the regulation before the European Court of Justice seeking to have elements annulled.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study examines four key areas: the political takeover of public service media, governmental control over the Media Council, the discriminatory distribution of state advertising funds, and the concentration of media ownership through the creation of KESMA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlthough the legal framework appears to safeguard the political independence of public broadcasters and media regulators, these institutions have become fully captured by the governing party,\u201d the report states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report is part of an annual monitoring series that assesses the media environments of seven EU member states in the context of the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ipi.media\/hungary-media-capture-monitoring-report-2025\"><b>Full report<\/b><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) confirms that Hungary continues to represent \u201cthe most sophisticated model of media capture\u201d within the EU and that \u201crather than take any steps to implement the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), the Hungarian government has framed it as <a href=\"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/2025\/11\/19\/ipi-jelentes-magyarorszag-a-kifinomult-mediaelfoglalas-modellje-az-eu-ban\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  IPI Report: Hungary Represents the Most Sophisticated Model of Media Capture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipi","category-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforum.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}