12 November 2025 Country reports Monitoring Hungary: Media Capture Monitoring Report 2025The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) today jointly launch a new series of Media Capture Monitoring Reports for 2025, with Hungary the first…
29 September 2025 Monitoring What is the state of Freedom of Information (FOI) in Europe, and what challenges do journalists encounter when seeking access to government data?Although most European countries have laws guaranteeing the right to information, journalists often face major obstacles in practice. This report reviews 60 documented violations of FOI recorded on the Mapping…
16 September 2025 Monitoring Monitoring Report January-June 2025This Monitoring Report takes stock of the press freedom situation in 36 EU Member States and candidate countries during the first six months of 2025. Between January and June, the…
16 April 2025 Monitoring Fact Sheet: More than 5,000 press freedom violations in Europe since 2020Since the beginning of the MFRR project in 2020, the Mapping Media Freedom (MapMF) database has documented a steady rise of press freedom violations in EU Member States and Candidate…
26 March 2025 Monitoring Spyware and Surveillance Fact Sheet: 2020–2025Spywares are extremely powerful and intrusive digital weapons that are increasingly jeopardising the work of journalists and basic human rights, within and outside Europe. Narratives that portray them as being…
12 February 2025 Monitoring Monitoring Report 2024: 1,548 media freedom alerts in the past yearThe latest annual Monitoring Report analyses the press freedom situation in 35 European countries, including the 27 EU Member States and nine countries with EU candidate status. Between January and…