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Recent reports have confirmed the negative trend for media freedom in Hungary but also pointed to Budapest's negative impact on press freedom in neighbouring countries. On World Press Freedom Day (3 May), EURACTIV talked to two of the main experts on Hungarian media.
news Hungary's postal service to stop delivering newspapers dw.com 02/03/2021 Stephan Ozsvath Hungary's postal service is due to stop daily newspaper delivery in July. The official line is that it is no longer profitable but critics regard the step as another move to squeeze the country's independent media. © picture-alliance/imageBROKER/K. F. Schöfmann In the future, pro-government newspapers may be all you can get your hands on in Hungary Hungarian newspapers, TV stations and media platforms have been under pressure from President Viktor Orban's government for many yea...
Thousands rally in Budapest for media freedom Not the first restrictions to hit the newspaper delivery service Magyar Hang is printed in the Slovak capital Bratislava because its publishers were unable to find any Hungarian companies prepared to print the newspaper, says Lukacs. He said the editorial board is already devising plans B,C and D for the event that Magyar Posta discontinues weekly delivery service. He said one possibility would be to stuff 5,000 envelopes every Thursday with the newspapers and take them to the post office for delivery. But he said that would cost three to four ti...
Hungary's leading independent radio station Klubradio lost an appeal Tuesday to keep its broadcasting licence after the country's media regulator said it had infringed administrative rules, raising n…
Top Hungary independent radio forced off air