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Central European Press And Media Foundation
The Central European Press and Media Foundation or CEPMF ( hu, Közép-Európai Sajtó és Média Alapítvány, ''KESMA'') is a Hungarian foundation controlling many of the country's media outlets. Its assets consist of cable news channels, radio stations, internet news portals, newspapers and magazines, including Hír TV, ''Origo'', ''Mandiner'', ''Nemzeti Sport'', ''Magyar Nemzet'', '' Világgazdaság'', ''Bors'' and ''Figyelő''. The joint estimated value of the foundations assets is over 88 million euros. The foundation has been criticized by the European Federation of Journalists and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom for its close ties to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán Viktor Mihály Orbán (; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian politician who has served as prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has presided over Fidesz since 1993, with a brief break between 20 .... The news outlets owned by the found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media (communication)
In mass communication, media are the communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data. The term refers to components of the mass media communications industry, such as print media, publishing, the news media, photography, Movie theater, cinema, broadcasting (radio and television), digital media, and advertising. The development of early writing and paper enabling longer-distance communication systems such as mail, including in the Achaemenid Empire, Persian Empire (Chapar Khaneh and Angarium) and Roman Empire, can be interpreted as early forms of media. Writers such as Howard Rheingold have framed early forms of human communication, such as the Lascaux, Lascaux cave paintings and early writing, as early forms of media. Another framing of the history of media starts with the Chauvet Cave paintings and continues with other ways to carry human communication beyond the short range of voice: smoke signals, Trail blazing, trail markers, and sculpture. The Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Szabó (diplomat)
László Szabó (born 1965) is a Hungarian diplomat, physician, businessman and politician, who served as Hungarian Ambassador to the United States between 2017 and 2020. Prior to that, he served as CEO of the Teva Hungary Ltd. pharmaceutical manufacturing (2010–2014), then Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Third Orbán Government (2014–2017). He presented his credentials to U.S. President Donald Trump on 8 September 2017. Career Szabó began his career in 1993 at Eli Lilly and Company. He started working as Medical Sales Representatives for one year. Then he served as Marketing Coordinator and Product Manager for Hungary until 1997. In 1998 he worked in Wales UK as Sales Manager and became HR Associate and Team leader. Between 1999 and 2000 he was the Country Manager in New Zealand and the South-Pacific. In 2001 he served as Director for Human Resources for Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East. Before he became Senior Director for Human Reso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of nearly 9 million, mostly ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian, the official language, is the world's most widely spoken Uralic language and among the few non-Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe. Budapest is the country's capital and largest city; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr. The territory of present-day Hungary has for centuries been a crossroads for various peoples, including Celts, Romans, Germanic tribes, Huns, West Slavs and the Avars. The foundation of the Hungarian state was established in the late 9th century AD with the conquest of the Carpathian Basin by Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hír TV
Hír TV is a Hungarian television news channel, the first of such made in the country. It began broadcasting on 2 January 2003. History Initial years On 26 November 2002, the TV channel was registered using 20 million Hungarian forints (~64.350 euros) of capital. The first CEO of television was Gábor Borókai, who had recently served as Viktor Orbán's first government spokesman (from 1998 to 2002), and the first editor-in-chief was Imre Dlusztus, who was the sometime editor-in-chief of '' Délmagyarország'' (meaning ''"Southern Hungary"''), the local newspaper of Szeged. The first test broadcast began on 2 December 2002. After one month of test broadcasts, the TV channel started its regular broadcasting on 2 January 2003, according to contract with several cable television companies. Role in the 2006 protests in Hungary Hír TV was the only channel to broadcast continuous live coverage of the 2006 anti-government protests in Hungary. The channel's reports were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origo (website)
Origo (stylised as ORIGO, previously as rigo'') is a major Hungarian-language news website founded in 1998 by telecommunications company MATÁV. In 2018, Origo was the third most visited Hungarian website. Since 2015, Origo has been regularly criticised by the left for its uncritical support of the Fidesz political party. Multiple critics described the website as "state-run propaganda", prone to operate with the same keywords for emotional mobilization as other news outlets with close ties to Fidesz. History 1998-2001: Foundation and early days Four former Magyar Narancs employees, Péter Nádori, Ferenc Pohly, György Simó and Balázs Weyer decided to start an online news website. After contacting other media publishers such as Népszabadság, they were eventually given funds for the website by Magyar Telekom (then called MATÁV) in order to popularise internet subscriptions in Hungary. Preparations for the website began in May 1997, and it was eventually launched a year lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandiner
Mandiner is a centre-right Hungarian group of news publications including the weekly news magazine Mandiner and the internet portals mandiner.hu and Makronóm.mandiner (makronom.mandiner.hu). The three publications have separate managements. They are published by Mandiner Press Kft, founded in 2017, and belong to the Central European Press and Media Foundation group (KESMA). Mandiner is a successor of a news publication run in the early 2000s by Fidelitas, the youth arm of the Hungarian national-conservative party Fidesz, which has been ruling Hungary since 2010. The printed weekly version is published since 12 September 2019. 444.hu Affiliation Mandiner identifies itself as |
Nemzeti Sport
''Nemzeti Sport'' (the title means "National Sport") is a Hungarian sports daily. History and profile ''Nemzeti Sport'' was founded in 1903. The paper is owned by Ringier of Switzerland. It is frequently cited by quality English-language media The paper is published in broadsheet format. Its publisher claimed that the newspaper had the third largest circulation in the country. The circulation of the paper was 96,000 copies in 2003. It had a circulation of 95,111 copies in 2009, making it the fourth most read daily in the country. The circulation decreased to 18,212 by 2022. Genre Although ''Nemzeti Sport'' is considered one of the most reliable source of information on sport, recently the online version of the paper became increasingly sensational. An example of this tendency can be observed by the news items about the possible transfer of the Hungary national football team and Dinamo Moscow left-winger Balázs Dzsudzsák Balázs Dzsudzsák (; born 23 December 1986) is a Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magyar Nemzet
''Magyar Nemzet'' ('' en, Hungarian Nation'') is a major Hungarian newspaper published in Hungary, and in 2021 styled itself as "close to the current Hungarian government led by Viktor Orbán." History and profile ''Magyar Nemzet'', a moderate conservative daily, was founded by Sándor Pethő in 1938. The paper fused with the other conservative daily ''Napi Magyarország'' in April 2000. ''Magyar Nemzet'' is regarded as part of conservative media which intensified in the country in 2010. Its editorials often speak out against the socialist and liberal parties, Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ). ''Magyar Nemzet'' is published in broadsheet format. Its major rival was ''Népszabadság ''Népszabadság'' (; means "Liberty of the People") was a major Hungarian newspaper which was formerly the official press organ of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the Hungarian People's Republic. History and profile ''Népsza ...'', the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Világgazdaság
''Világgazdaság'' (''World Economy'' in English) is a Hungarian business online newspaper. It operates as part of Mediaworks Hungary Zrt. The newspaper was traditionally issued on every Budapest Stock Exchange trading day, until it became an online-only publication in 2022. History and profile ''Világgazdaság'' was founded in 1969.Világgazdaság ''Budapost''. Retrieved 6 December 2013. It is headquartered in . The daily is called "the green newspaper" since it is published on green paper. During the communist era in Hungary it was the first newspaper which was allowed direct access to W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figyelő
''Figyelő'' ('' en, Observer'') was a Christian-conservative Hungarian business magazine published on every Thursday by the Hungarian publishing company K4A Lapkiadó (owned by Mária Schmidt). ''Figyelő'' covered a broad range of subjects, such as politics, business, economy, society, technology, and to some extent culture, its approach being economy- or business-related wherever possible. History and profile ''Figyelő'' was launched in 1957. It has started and covered several infamous stories of Hungarian politics, notably, the "Tocsik-case" in 1996, a corruption scandal related to the then-socialist-liberal government coalition of Hungary. The case was revealed following an article of ''Figyelő'', and later swelled into one of the greatest scandals of the history of post-Cold War Hungary. At the end of the 1990s the magazine was among the independent and investigative publications in Hungary. During this period the weekly was owned by the Dutch company VNU. Some years lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Federation Of Journalists
The European Federation of Journalists is the European regional organisation of the International Federation of Journalists. It is the largest organisation of journalists in Europe, representing about 320,000 journalists in 71 journalists’ organisations across 43 countries. It is headquartered in Brussels. History The EFJ was created in 1994 within the framework of the IFJ Constitution to represent the interests of journalists’ unions and associations and their journalists. It has established an independent legal status (number: 0503.985.472) as an international non-profit association (AISBL, association internationale sans but lucratif) since February 2013 according to the Belgian law. Activities The EFJ fights for social and professional rights of journalists working in all sectors of the media across Europe through strong trade unions and associations. The EFJ promotes and defends the rights to freedom of expression and information as guaranteed by Article 10 of the Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Centre For Press And Media Freedom
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) is a non-profit organisation that promotes, protects and defends the right to a free media and freedom of expression throughout Europe. It was founded in 2015 as a watchdog of the European Charter on Freedom of the Press. The vision of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom is a society where media freedom enables open discourse and everyone can seek, receive and impart information. The main activities of the ECPMF are monitoring press and media freedom violations, advocacy and practical help for journalists, such as legal support and a "journalists-in-residence" programme, and engaging diverse stakeholders across Europe. History In 2009, 48 editors-in-chief and leading journalists from all over Europe convened, and formulated the European Charter on Freedom of the Press. The goal of the initiative was to assert the charter's validity across Europe and to make its adoption a condition in EU accession negotiations. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
