The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a diagnostic tool developed by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the European University Institute. Implemented every year since 2020, and evolved since 2014, the MPM evaluates, using a normative approach, potential risks to media...

Media plays a unique role in Europe's democracy, society and culture. European citizens need trustworthy information and access to culturally diverse stories and innovative content. However, challenges have multiplied over the years: the global media industry has been undergoing a deep and...

Media plays a unique role in Europe's democracy, society and culture. European citizens need trustworthy information and access to culturally diverse stories and innovative content. However, challenges have multiplied over the years: the global media industry has been undergoing a deep and...

How does media coverage of minorities affect their rule compliance? Using data from 800,000 random audits at supermarket self-checkouts in Italy, we show that heightened refugee media coverage reduces under-reporting of items among shoppers born in major refugee-source countries, but not other...

In this paper, we unveil targeted repression against journalists as an elaborate strategy used by modern autocrats to mitigate the risk of mass protests during autocratic elections-a common threat to their rule. Repression is deployed to discipline the media before elections to secure favorable...

In this paper, we unveil targeted repression against journalists as an elaborate strategy used by modern autocrats to mitigate the risk of mass protests during autocratic elections—a common threat to their rule. Repression is deployed to discipline the media before elections to secure...