With Index gone, the future looks even bleaker for Hungarian media
(World News Austria)

This article is part of IPI`s series `Europe media freedom in the shadow of Covid`. Hungarian independent media, already in turnmoil duetotheglobalcoronaviruspandemic, has suffered its biggest blow in a decade of constant attacks from Viktor Orbán`s authoirtarian right-wing regime. In the last week of July the vast majority of the approximately 90 journalists working at Index.hu resigned, after their editor-in-chief, SzabolcsDull,wasfired by the company`s CEO. It is still unclear how this will transform the Hungarian media landscape, but everyone involved agrees: things will be much worse. The importance of Index cannot be overstated. Index accounted for nearly half of all page views among...