State Media Monitor
Regional Overviews
Every year, State Media Monitor publishes an overview of state and public media in each of six regions: who funds them, who owns and governs them, and who decides what they publish. The archive holds 36 overviews, from June 2021 to the latest edition.
The 2026 overviews
574 entries in 161 jurisdictions, published between June and October 2026. Each square is one entry, coloured by its classification.
27 October 2026
Europe
- entries
- 105
- jurisdictions
- 38
- non-independent48.7% in 2022
- 43.8%
Independent entries form a majority for the first time since 2022, after nine Hungarian exits and six upgrades.
16 September 2026
Eurasia
- entries
- 60
- jurisdictions
- 12
- non-independent97.0% in 2022
- 96.7%
Teleradio-Moldova and Ukraine’s Suspilne remain the only independent entries; five Azerbaijani outlets left the mapping.
1 July 2026
Middle East and North Africa
- entries
- 85
- jurisdictions
- 19
- non-independent95.4% in 2022
- 97.6%
Israel’s Kan and Galatz are the only independent entries after Sky News Arabia was reclassified Captured Public.
28 June 2026
Sub-Saharan Africa
- entries
- 145
- jurisdictions
- 41
- non-independent97.6% in 2022
- 98.6%
All eight new entries are State-Controlled; two Ivorian outlets are the region’s only independent media.
3 September 2026
Asia
- entries
- 111
- jurisdictions
- 26
- non-independent91.2% in 2022
- 91.9%
Indonesia’s TVRI and RRI returned to State-Controlled; independence is confined to four jurisdictions.
23 July 2026
Latin America and the Caribbean
- entries
- 68
- jurisdictions
- 25
- non-independent76.9% in 2022
- 83.8%
The non-independent share has risen in every cycle since 2022; universities house six of the 11 independent outlets.
The 14 entries mapped in North America and Oceania have no regional overview; they are listed in the Global List for North America and Oceania. Non-independent shares for 2022 come from the State Media Monitor consolidated database 2022–2026.
Every edition since 2021
Six regions in each of six cycles. Select a year to open that edition.
How the overviews workUpdated every cycle since 2021.
Each overview analyses the state and public media mapped in its region in that cycle. Every entry is assessed against three criteria, funding, ownership and governance, and editorial control, and placed in one of the seven categories of the State Media Matrix.
Classifications follow the evidence available in each cycle. New accounts, appointment records or a change of government can move an entry to another category or out of the mapping, so figures in older editions may differ from later ones. The Global Study brings the regional findings together each year.