Using the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) to assess media pluralism in the UK in the year 2022

The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a research tool co-funded by the European Union that is designed to identify potential risks to media pluralism in countries across Europe. A regular implementation of the MPM is conducted every year in 27 EU Member States, as well as in Albania, Montenegro, The Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey. The research is based on a standardised questionnaire developed by the CMPF and updated every year. Risks to media pluralism are examined in four main thematic areas: Fundamental Protection, Market Plurality, Political Independence, and Social Inclusiveness. The results are based on the assessment of a number of indicators for each thematic area (see Table 1). The CMPF partners with experienced, independent national researchers to carry out the data collection and to author the narrative reports, except in the case of Italy where data collection is carried out centrally by the CMPF team. Moreover, to ensure accurate and reliable findings, a group of national experts in each country reviewed the answers to particularly evaluative questions. For a list of selected countries, the final country report is peer-reviewed by an independent country expert.