is senior correspondent at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which was relaunched in Hungary in 2020 after almost three decades. As a journalist for almost 30 years now, he founded and co-founded seven different media outlets including pirate radios, the roma radio channel Rádió C, two prison radio studios, the online magazine vs.hu and Pesti Hírlap, a daily newspaper, as editor-in-chief in 2019. Kerényi was editor-in-chief of the most listened to Hungarian radio station, the public broadcast MR1-Kossuth Rádió until 2010 and worked three years as consultant and program director of Pátria Rádió, the Hungarian channel of Slovak Public Radio. He was a lecturer at ELTE MÉDIA (the Media and communication Studies Department of the Institute for Art Theory and Media Research at ELTE University) between 1998 and 2008.
Three opposition journalists from Turkey, Russia and Hungary talk to Eurozine’s editor-in-chief about repressive regimes, personal risk, migration, the role of the media and the future of their profession in the digital age.