News

September 30, 2026

IMME a partner in the European CYberSafety VI project led by the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute

The Institute of Mass Media is participating as a partner in the European CYberSafety VI project (2026–29), which is coordinated by the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute of the Ministry of Education, Sports, and Youth. Other partners in the project include the Cyprus Radio Television and Digital Services Authority, the Digital Security Authority, the University of Cyprus, the Cyprus University of Technology, the Mediterranean Institute for Gender Studies, and the Pancyprian Parents’ School.

September 23, 2026

Daphne’s Europe

In life Daphne Caruana Galizia exposed corruption; in death she’s exposing the frailty of the European Union’s oversight and the depressing timidity of its leadership.

August 22, 2026

Drousiotis case a new point of departure

Investigative journalism demands discretion, strict scrutiny, delicate handling and cross‑checking of sources, endless hours of research and fact‑verification, painstaking protective measures against surveillance by malicious actors, institutional or otherwise, and constant editorial and legal support. But while it has become entrenched in the public consciousness as a solitary process, it does not mean that it should be the undertaking of a single individual. Quite the opposite. Investigative journalism should never be the undertaking of just one person.

June 13, 2026

Professors and Editors may be the last line of defence against mechanical intelligence

When researching and then writing a study on how the Cypriot media covered the war in Gaza, published by the Institute for Mass Media and Universitas Publications earlier this year1, I toyed with the idea of including a ‘note for the record’ to state that the study had been free of any usage of MI.

May 5, 2026

Round Table on Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights

The Institute, supported by the Universitas Foundation, held a closed round-table discussion on the occasion of the release of IMME board member Natalie Alkiviadou’s book ‘Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights’

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.

September 4, 2025