Freedom of the Press
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Whatever your plans may be as the school year begins, we think it's worth (re)visiting some of our posts.
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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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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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Press freedom violations are no longer isolated incidents. In its report, Ofalp documents 91 cases in 2024. Behind these reports lies an economic reality: for independent media, each lawsuit, each intimidation can become an existential threat.