Minorities in the Hungarian Media [antikvár]

PREFACEThis study is a part of the international project Multicultural Europe in Media. The Center for Independent Journalism, Budapest and its project partner organisations - Multicultural Institute (Prague), Peace Institute (Ljubljana), Center for Independent Journalism (Bucharest), Media Development Center (Sofia), Association of Ukrainians in Poland (Warsav^), Sollentuna Föreningsrad (Sollentuna, Sweden), Society of Goodwill (Kosice, Slovakia). Media Watch (Frederiksberg, Denmark) - began working together in January 2010. One of our main goals was to encourage direct dialogue between journalists and civil society organisations about changes in increasingly multicultural European societies and their portrayal by media.Representatives of civil society organisations and journalists took an active part in the international conference Tuning into Diversity 2010 which was followed-up by national workshops and round table discussions in all the ten countries. Based on this joint work, we hoped to foster co-operation among the participants in order to work on solutions to the problems of divided societies.As a part of the project, the Diversity Toolkit guidebook for journalists was published in ten languages and a manual for civil organisations to initiate intercultural dialogue with the media.In this study author Borbála Tóth sums up the present legal framework of the media regarding ethnic and national minorities and migrants, basic data and research. Based on an ad hoc survey, she also describes programming and ethical guidelines of media organizations. The study provides a brief overview of the civil initiatives of the past few years which aimed at shaping the portrayal of migrants and ethnic minorities in the media in Hungary. The publication of the study was supported by the Royal Netherlands Embassy and the European Commission's Fundamental rights and citizenship programme.