For the King Baudouin Foundation, journalism is a core pillar for sustaining democratic pluralism. An Lavens, Head of the foundation’s Democracy

AI is becoming a gatekeeper for public information. The Media and Journalism Research Center’s AI Information Map offers something regulators, publishers and the public have lacked: a way to see whose...

In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared wo...

The Media and Journalism Research Center has published a new article in its journal New Ideas in Media and Communication, proposing a framework for analysing communication in which meaning is produced...

By Cerasel Cuteanu Nearly four decades after the fall of Communism, Romania is still asking whether it ever truly escaped Moscow's grip. A new political system is in place. Yet recent events have expo...

In Journalism Practice, Emma Verhoeven and Sarah Van Leuven examined generative AI’s impact on journalism employment and found that rather than replacing

Media expert Marius Dragomir explains how funding, donor dependence, media capture and AI are reshaping independent journalism in Central Asia and beyond.

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El investigador César Fieiras Ceide, Profesor Ayudante Doctor en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación de la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), publica su nuevo libro: IA, innovación y...

The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) has published a new study examining how anti-immigration narratives are constructed and made persuasive on TikTok. Published in New Ideas in Media and C...

The provisions of the EU AI Act coming into effect in August may not change journalism overnight, but they will have a significant impact. The most

The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) has published the Hungary edition of its AI Information Map, a research project examining which sources AI systems make visible when people ask question...

BBC Charter Review: The British Broadcasting Challenge calls for a permanent, independent BBC free from government influence

The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) has launched Tracing the Flows, a new study providing a comprehensive structural analysis of European Union funding connected to media and journalism ov...

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Media Crews Under Threat: Between the Fires of War and Domestic Pressures

The Stack Arrives Before the Breakthrough In one minute The most important quantum story last month was something consequential: the machinery that will carry quantum technology into everyday life s...

In a research article in Journalism Studies, Jacob L. Nelson and Seth C. Lewis argue that transparency alone cannot rebuild trust; news organisations must

MJRC will publish the first batch of findings from Local Signal: Mapping How Communities Get Informed in autumn 2026. The project examines how information travels within local communities, looking bey...

The Stack Arrives Before the Breakthrough In one minute The most important quantum story last month was something consequential: the machinery that will carry quantum technology into everyday life s...

The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) has published the Spain results from its AI Information Map, a research project that tracks which sources artificial intelligence systems make visible, ...

By Robert Nemeth The landslide defeat of Viktor Orbán marks a turning point not only in Hungarian politics but also in the country’s media landscape. Yet the path from political change to genuine medi...

Hate Speech in Lebanon: Between Combating Incitement and Protecting Freedom of Expression

Global thematic evaluation of 45 FPI-funded actions (~€100m since 2021) countering disinformation and FIMI. Actions are relevant and rapid, but fragmented and reactive, outcomes and sustainability are...

For three decades, the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) has taken a different path in supporting independent journalism through patient capital

The Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) has published a new study examining how political memes were used during the 2024 European Parliament elections, highlighting their growing role as tool...

This month's signal The quantum-security migration has started. Most newsrooms are not in it. In April, the organisations that operate large parts of the internet began putting dates on their transi...

A global network for researchers and journalists studying media policy.

Understanding when local news meets audience needs is a complex issue. This paper, published in Journalism, presents the Local News Proximity Index, which

Trwająca piąty rok wojna na Ukrainie oraz najnowszy konflikt zbrojny w Zatoce Perskiej nauczyły nas, czym jest infrastruktura krytyczna – elektrownie, stacje uzdatniania wody czy kluczowe szlaki logis...

This article examines the role of Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR) in sustaining democratic communication in a small, bilingual media market between 2010 a...

La captura de los medios, entendida como el proceso por el que gobiernos, élites económicas, propietarios, reguladores o grandes plataformas condicionan la independencia editorial sin recurrir necesar...

MJRC Director Marius Dragomir has published a new research paper mapping the global landscape of media capture across six distinct typological models, with case studies covering Russia, Hungary, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, and the United States. The paper applies the Capture Typology Framework (CTF), Dragomir's four-component analytical model developed through sustained empirical research across more than

Gaza ja Ukraina dominoivat kriisiuutisotsikoita, koska yleisö on niistä kiinnostunut ja ne ovat geopoliittisesti tärkeitä, selviää tutkimuksesta. Mediahuomio saa myös lahjoittajien kukkaronnyörit auki...

This month’s highlight: The geometry of the threat is changing Quantum computing rarely announces itself with a single breakthrough. It advances through accumulated small reductions, in the hardware ...

The Journalism Funders Forum has published “Journalism and Media Funding in Europe”, a new report offering a snapshot of how philanthropic organisations

Plus new research on: Local newspapers' pitches for financial support, what makes for a good news interview, and Meta's fact-checking efforts

2025 saw coordinated attempts to undermine democratic processes across Central and Eastern Europe. Will Hungary and Bulgaria be the next battlefields?

Call for Applications: Young Media Researchers Program

Stało się to, co jeszcze kilka tygodni temu wydawało się mało prawdopodobne. Netflix wycofał się z wyścigu o przejęcie Warner Bros. Discovery, ustępując pola ofercie Paramount Skydance. To ważna zmian...

Our “Humanitarian Crisis Coverage Report”, which examines how media attention is distributed across ten major humanitarian emergencies and how closely coverage reflects the severity of these crises, w...

Highlight: The Encryption Clock Has Started March 2026 may be remembered less for a quantum breakthrough and more for a warning. The systems protecting journalism, archives, financial transactions an...