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Former Fellow on Hungary’s Press Crackdown

In The New York Times Phillip N. Howard, CASBS class of 2008-2009, discusses the autocratic press crackdown orchestrated by Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban.

“Media organizations must surrender data about their employees and contracts, as well as editorial and advertising content, at a level of granular detail that no media outlet in any other part of Europe has to provide to their governments,” writes Howard.

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