Out of Orbán’s shadow, Hungary tries to reset how the public gets its news - The Christian Science Monitor
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For 16 years, Hungarian journalists learned to survive in one of two worlds. One was a patronage-heavy, pro-government machine; the other an adversarial independent sector. So when Antónia Mészáros was tapped to host the official relaunch of Hungary’s main public television channel, she did not hesitate to step up and help mark a clean break with the past. When she was called into the offices of M1, the broadcaster was operating with only a skeleton staff after many of its employees had left or been fired following the ouster of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán from office in April. Under Mr. Orbán, public media had become a mouthpiece of the government, with heavy-handed bias in its reporting and favoritism in its offices.
Ms. Mészáros had worked in Hungarian public broadcasting as a journalist before being part of mass layoffs in 2011, and hosted a talk show in Hungary for several years afterward, until going to work for UNICEF. The opportunity to host a special day of programming now, she says, gave her the honor of symbolizing a free, credible, and professional public media ethos. “I’m convinced that there’s a genuine effort being made,” Ms. Mészáros says.
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