In the small Flemish media market, there is no real minority media (anymore). One notable example was MVSLIM, an online news platform started by two young Flemish Muslims, which reported solely in English. The platform became so popular that it was only recently sold to a London-based company. Flanders is a diverse society with people from all countries and backgrounds represented, but this has, perhaps surprisingly, not yet resulted in any form of emergence of minority media geared towards several different ethnic groups.
Public broadcaster VRT offers limited versions of its Dutch-language news website, vrtnws.be, in French, German, and English. Notably, the Flemish authorities themselves directly finance the English-language online newspaper Flanders Today, published by Mediahuis, the aforementioned media company which owns four of the seven paid-for Flemish daily newspapers. According to its website, its journalists have “full editorial autonomy regarding the content of the newspaper” (flanderstoday.eu, 2020).
Politically affiliated news brands do not have a large audience and, therefore, cannot be seen as leaders within the Flemish media landscape. These primarily extreme-right-wing and extreme-left-wing online news media only exist at the fringes.
