102 14. Dissemination, media Schedule 6 – press reports on the NPM’s activities in 2016 Year of the visit Number of independent press reports 2015 68 Central Holding Facility of the MPHQoB and the Holding Facility of the National Bureau of Investigation of the Emergency Response Team of National Police Headquarters – monitoring with cameras, living space, courtyard 2015 43 Home for Children with Disabilities of the Károlyi István Children’s Center 2015 36 Somogy County Remand Prison 2015 35 Cseppkõ (Dripstone) Children’s Home 2016 30 Home for Children with Special Needs of the Károlyi István Children’s Center 2015 26 Assisted Living Center, Pécel 2015 8 Name of the visited institution / the main topic of the report Zita Home for Children with Special Needs – over-crowdedness, violence among children, isolation period Altogether 246 press reports 14.1. Press coverage of the NPM’s reports published in 2016 In 2015, my colleagues registered 660 media reports on the NPM’s visits. In 2016, in connection with my reports published as NPM, this number was 246. These two numbers may not be compared, since the 2015 data referred to the visits, while in my first annual report I did not have yet the ways and means to examine the press interest generated by my reports. Last year, altogether 22 independent press reports were published on my visits conducted during the year in question. This decrease in numbers may probably be explained by the fact that, in 2016, OPCAT-related activities were not a novelty anymore. A specialty of the 2016 press coverage is that press reports covered mainly visits that had taken place in 2015. It may be explained by the fact that preparing reports on the visits is time-consuming, and these reports are not published until after I am convinced that all the parties concerned have already received them. Press reports facilitate, in a broader sense, the prevention of ill-treatment. Typically, the reports on the NPM’s visits caught the attention of a single medium, the daily Magyar Nemzet. Those articles were written by one journalist on the basis of my reports published on my Office’s homepage, then taken over–almost word for word–by other, mainly online media. Television stations, unfortunately, expressed interest only towards issues with a potential to make a sensation. In 2016, such an issue was child prostitution in the context of children’s homes.