March 9, 2026
Public broadcasting was always used by governments to manage public opinion. The explosive growth of commercial television in the last quarter of the previous century mitigated the effect introducing a pluralistic landscape, not just in news but across all aspects of TV and radio production. The re-balancing worked for a while but as corporate media began to accumulate more power themselves, they too began to manipulate the news agenda against the public interest.
January 21, 2026
Universitas Publications and the Institute for Mass Media have just released the study “Media Coverage of Gaza: The case of Cyprus” which explores the notion that a large segment of the media was partly responsible for the normalization of the war and the dehumanization of the Palestinian people.
September 4, 2025
May 2, 2025
The IPI issued an alert on 25 April over concerns […]
February 18, 2025
The Institute for Mass Media has launched a pilot News Literacy presentation programme for secondary schools in the context of its Media Freedom Literacy Project.
October 3, 2024
The Institute for Mass Media has launched a pilot News Literacy presentation programme for secondary schools in the context of its Media Freedom Literacy Project.
May 16, 2024
The Cyprus Investigative Reporting Network CIReN was launched in Cyprus on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, as a new, independent, non-profit, investigative media platform committed to the highest professional and ethical standards of quality journalism on issues of public interest.
December 11, 2023
The Institute for Mass Media and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom held a panel discussion in Nicosia on 7 December on the occasion of the release of a study on how the media in the Republic of Cyprus covered the early stages of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
July 1, 2023
The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom has released its annual Media Pluralism Monitor for the 27 Member States of the EU and five candidate countries.
May 11, 2023
Journalists and members of civil society as well as law enforcement representatives had the opportunity to interact with renowned trainer Karen Greenaway during a one-day workshop organized by the Institute and OCCRP.
March 23, 2023
The Institute for Mass Media IMME is partnering with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project OCCRP in an 18-month long project to foster investigative journalism in Cyprus.
December 14, 2022
Την κάλυψη των εκλογών από τα ΜΜΕ μέχρι σήμερα, τις πρόνοιες του νέου εκσυγχρονισμένου Κώδικα Δημοσιογραφικής Δεοντολογίας και τον ρόλο των Μέσων Κοινωνικής Δικτύωσης, των επιτελείων και των επικοινωνιολόγων στις εκλογικές αναμετρήσεις, εξέτασε η Ημερίδα που διοργάνωσε το Ινστιτούτο Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης (ΙΜΜΕ), με θέμα "Εκλογές και ΜΜΕ", που πραγματοποιήθηκε την Τρίτη 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2022.
December 2, 2022
October 19, 2022
The Institute for Mass Media has collaborated with the Cyprus Committee for Media Ethics in shaping the agenda of this year’s annual general meeting of AIPCE (Alliance of Independent Press Councils of Europe) to take place in Ayia Napa on October 19-21.
September 14, 2022
May 3, 2022
On 3 May, the World Press Freedom Day, the European Parliament officially launched the call for submissions for entries to the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism.
April 28, 2022
April 18, 2022
18 April 2022
An article co-written by IMME board member Natalie Alkiviadou
On March 1, 2022, Regulation 2022/350 of the Council of the European Union (EU) suspended broadcasting activities of Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik in the EU until Russia ends the aggression against Ukraine and its media “cease to conduct propaganda actions” against the EU and its Member States.