Report | Discussing Ukraine in V4 mainstream media
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, media coverage of the country has increased significantly. Interpreting and commenting on events, putting them in the news and shaping the debate about Ukraine's future prospects in relation to European integration has thus become an important part of the responsibility of most mainstream media. However, as the war drags on, the V4 citizens' awareness of the conflict has diverged. At different times, some topics have been given more emphasis than others, making the quality of coverage often incomplete or unconvincing. Some countries emphasise the autonomy of reporting, which in turn allows for broad and in-depth coverage, while there are regimes that narrow the information and use the topic of war to produce stories for domestic purposes. In the final report on the EUROPEUM Institute project, Oszkár Roginer-Hofmeister and others write.
30. November 2024
This comparison of Ukraine's future in the news coverage of the V4 countries provides a more comprehensive media picture. It reveals the most common narratives in the news, alongside the dominant ones, and the less represented aspects of how Ukraine's future is perceived. The aim is to improve coverage of different scenarios for Ukraine's future, to provide the public with better information and a more diverse interpretation of news across the V4 countries.
To this end, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy has collaborated with the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy from Hungary, the Polish Res Publica Foundation and the Slovak Foreign Policy Association.
The publication is the final report of the project Discussing Ukraine in V4 mainstream media: the future vis-à-vis European integration, more about which can be found here.
The full report can be found under the PDF button.
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