Hungary
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Mark, a journalist at 444.hu, recounts on April 12, 2026: Hungarians punish Viktor Orbán's party, Fidesz, ending sixteen years in power and a methodical weakening of press freedom.
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Viktor Orbán's Hungary appears as a laboratory for the political and economic asphyxiation of independent media. A model spreading across Europe with the far right, despite new European legal tools. Interview with Pavol Szalai from Reporters Without Borders.
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After a decade spent wrestling with business models, European newsrooms now face legal and political pressures that demonstrate — as the United States learned before them — that money cannot solve everything.
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Gábor Kardos, CEO of Magyar Jeti Zrt, independent publisher of Hungarian media outlet 444.hu, describes his newsroom's reaction to a new bill that would heavily penalize media outlets receiving foreign funding, including private donations and European funds.