Archive - Media Finance Monitor - Center for Sustainable Media

June 2025

Fracturing the attention economy

European distribution, leadership in crisis, cool workshops in the autumn and 28 active calls.

Jun 26 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

Small batch, organic, tech to table digital sovereignty does not exist

We can’t ‘degrow’ European tech into global relevance. What we need are massive public and private investments, and news publishers ready to get serious…

Jun 19 •

Your deepest, darkest user needs and the emotional economics of modern journalism

An ambitious new European platform to distribute public interest journalism, the best paid job in a nonprofit newsroom, welcoming Austria into CEE and…

Jun 12 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

When 99% of your audience tells you they want more investigative journalism, don't believe them

A beginners guide to audience surveys and interpreting research data.

Jun 5 •

May 2025

A European Empire of Attention

A Trump that keeps on bumping, volatility in distribution and 26 active calls.

May 29 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

The 2025 Newsletter Playbook

Everything you need to know about choosing platforms, building audiences, and monetizing newsletters, featuring 19 case studies of successful models…

May 22 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

The right atrium of darkness

Hungary’s new foreign agent law shows how authoritarian regimes cut off the lifeblood of independent media: funding.

May 15 •

The brief history of people writing things to other people

Newsletters peaked in ~1530, the Medicis invented Substack and we are running a sale for a week before starting experiments with the paywall.

May 8 •

Media funding, weaponized

Case studies from successful newsrooms, growing Facebook referral traffic, funding results and 21 active calls.

May 1 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

April 2025

The Motion, the Myth, the Multiannual Framework

While journalism scored a small but important victory in the EU budget negotiation process, a whole host of other policy battles are just beginning.

Apr 24 •

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