Is the digitalization of the media only a technical question, or is it also a business, or perhaps a common economic interest? This is the question at the centre of a conference that the Association of Hungarian Catholic Journalists (Makusz) and the Association of Protestant Journalists (Prusz) are promoting in Budapest today on “Digitalization: the future of communication”. News of the conference is given by the Hungarian Catholic press agency Magyar Kurir, according to which, “on the basis of what is predicted by the European Union, transition to the new system of transmission ought to take place in all member countries by 2012. In Hungary, for the time being, the world of communication does not seem to be ready for such a change, but the associations of Christian journalists are already beginning to get organized for the future”. Digitalization, which affects TV and radio stations in particular, will make transmissions more accessible, open up the market, often oligopolistic, and bring more democracy into the world of communication.
