Monitoring media pluralism in the digital era : application of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2020 in the European Union, Albania and Turkey in the years 2018-2019. Report 2020

Abstract

This report presents the results and the methodology of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM2020), a tool geared at assessing the risks to media pluralism in EU member states and selected candidate countries (30 European countries in total). The Media Pluralism Monitor has been implemented, on a regular basis, by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, since 2013/2014 (last implementation MPM2017), based on a holistic perspective, taking into account legal, political and economic variables that are relevant to analysing the levels of plurality of media systems in a democratic society. This implementation covers the years 2018 and 2019. Consequently, the United Kingdom – which left the Union in January 2020 - is still analysed as being part of the European Union in this report.