News

March 9, 2026

Public Service Media Reloaded

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

Media Coverage of Gaza

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.
May 22, 2024

Sounding the CIReN

The sound of a siren is meant to be annoying. You tolerate it because you acknowledge that it is intended as a warning of impending danger.
May 16, 2024

Launch of the Cyprus Investigative Reporting Network – CIReN.

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.