BREAKING
The Board of Directors of the Foundation held a joint meeting with the editorial staff of the news site Free Hungarian Word (Szabad Magyar Szó) on May 30 2026, in Palics, and elected Péter Kókai as the next CEO of the Foundation, together with János Tőke as the next editor-in-Chief of the news site Free Hungarian Word.
The Press Freedom Foundation convened a media conference titled Clear Words and invited editors and leaders of all Hungarian-language media in Vojvodina to discuss the state of the information sphere after the political about-face in Hungary. Documents of the conference and press reports as well as reflections are listed here on the Free Hungarian Word news site.
The Press Freedom Foundation was established to contribute to the creation of an open and respectable public discourse, primarily within the Hungarian community in Vojvodina/Vajdaság, but also more broadly in Serbia’s and Hungary’s media spaces. We at the Foundation are not committed to, or in league with, any political party, state, individual, or partial interest. We are here to give voice to every constructive idea – and to their critiques as well. We do not shun any honest debate and are ready to conduct, or be conducive to, an open dialog with any dissenting party who accepts the principles of respectful confrontation of rational arguments.
The Foundation was created by people of Vojvodinian descent who – no matter where they currently live in the world – keep returning to the community and honestly care about the well-being and social destiny of their place of birth and its peoples. Our first collaborators were those Hungarian journalists in Vojvodina who had been expelled from party- and state-controlled media, but we welcome anyone with open hearts who wants to work according to the principles above and who accepts the humanistic intellectual mission to contribute to the thriving and prosperity of all in Vojvodina, including members of the Hungarian minority, in a democratic environment.
Let us cultivate the words of reason while confining our passions to the promotion of human tolerance and solidarity, instead of exciting hatred and fearmongering.
