Media control efforts

Anchor and Union Leader Dropped from Slovakia’s Most-Watched News in Retaliation Over Press Freedoms

Viktor Vincze, one of Slovakia’s most recognisable television anchors and the elected leader of the journalists’ union at TV Markíza—Slovakia’s most-watched private broadcaster—was removed from the country’s top-rated news programme Televízne noviny in May 2025 after refusing a reassignment...