Across Europe’s shifting political landscape, League Index has been quietly charting the contours of party strength, influence, and direction, producing one of the most intriguing league tables in contemporary politics. Conceived as an independent rankings platform, the League Index evaluates political parties using a composite scoring system known as the DMI Index, a multidimensional metric designed to capture…
When the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) became directly applicable across the European Union in August 2025, it marked the EU’s most ambitious attempt to confront media capture through binding law. For the first time, the independence of media regulators, the governance of public service media, transparency in state advertising, and protections for media pluralism…
Romania’s latest institutional crisis did not originate in parliament or the courts, but in investigative journalism, and, crucially, in an unexpected editorial decision by the country’s public broadcaster. The scandal surrounding Romania’s justice system was triggered by Recorder, an independent investigative outlet, whose documentary Justiție Capturată (“Captured Justice”) detailed alleged patterns of obstruction, internal protection networks, and accountability…
Students from the MJRC Young Researchers Program have found that ChatGPT consistently advises users to leave the web-hosting company GoDaddy. In a series of tests carried out between September and October 2025, the students asked ChatGPT to compare GoDaddy with other major hosting providers, including Hostinger, Squarespace, Wix, and Google Cloud. In nearly all cases, the chatbot’s…
Media capture is a useful concept for understanding the state of the media today, describing a situation in which governments or vested interests networked with politics control the media. Who controls the media today? This is the question that a newly released book about media capture tries to answer. Anya Schiffrin spoke to MediaPowerMonitor about…
Interview with the Peruvian journalist Nelly Luna Amancio, co-founder of Ojo Publico Nelly Luna Amancio is the co-founder and editor of Ojo Publico, an independent, non-profit Peruvian newsroom known internationally for its award-winning investigative journalism. She is an investigative journalist specializing in data analysis. Her coverage focuses on socio-environmental issues and corporate power. As a member…
In the Arab world, global players still boast millions of Twitter followers, but a clutch of fast-growing news media from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Lebanon are making inroads into the region’s Twitter market, according to the Twitter News Index, released today by MediaPowerMonitor. The reach of Twitter in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region is…
In Latin America, the Twitter news market is in the hands of the big nations such as Mexico and Brazil. When it comes to truly effective news operations, though, smaller markets like Uruguay lead the pack. One nation though scores big in both size and effectiveness; and that is Colombia. Twitter is far less spread…
“There is a lot more optimism about the future of the local media industry than perhaps you might expect,” says Damian Radcliffe, professor of journalism at the University of Oregon in the United States. One of the reasons for that is because people in some communities are still buying newspapers, says Mr Radcliffe who over the course…
One would expect the richer western newsrooms to be more agile in commanding online audiences; however, it is news outlets in less developed markets that are far more effective in capturing audiences on Facebook, according to our newly released index. 7Day News Journal is one of the most popular newspapers in Myanmar, with a circulation of…