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The exploding supply of misinformation is not the main problem
Google briefly made fake satellite images easier to produce, which is not great, but the economics of bad information still begins with demand.
Aug 6
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Peter Erdelyi
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July 2026
The slopulists are winning
AI-made books are selling, your paying readers are in their inbox, media companies are investable, gambling might finance more journalism, new…
Jul 30
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Peter Erdelyi
and
María Paula Ángel Benavides
1
1
Your Freedom of Speech Is My Freedom of Distribution
An opinion you are free to hold is not an opinion I am obliged to spread and a platform can say no without becoming a censor.
Jul 23
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Sebastian Esser
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Peter Erdelyi
1
Eleven ideas of what news is worth to the EU
MEPs filed 1,544 amendments to AgoraEU program. We read the ones that matter for journalism, built a dashboard to make sense of the proposals, and found…
Jul 16
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Peter Erdelyi
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David Kardos
, and
María Paula Ángel Benavides
Public media is not all about news
Hungary’s captured public broadcaster has gone dark. Rebuilding it should mean strengthening the information ecosystem, not recreating the old news…
Jul 9
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Alinda Veiszer
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Peter Erdelyi
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What are we good for?
A new study on the value of journalism, fresh benchmarking data for newsletter operators, a survey on local news usage and 24 active calls.
Jul 2
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Peter Erdelyi
and
María Paula Ángel Benavides
1
June 2026
1,500 paying subscribers in a month, in a market written off for reader revenue
What it takes to launch a paywall where some people might donate to journalism but don't subscribe to it.
Jun 25
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Isabela Pop
and
Peter Erdelyi
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Society pays for what helps society. People pay for what helps them.
New data on payment motivation, AI companies being held accountable and 24 active calls.
Jun 18
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Peter Erdelyi
and
María Paula Ángel Benavides
4
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We are being outlobbied
The European Parliament's draft would shrink journalism's share of the next EU budget. Nobody did this to us on purpose, which is somehow worse.
Jun 11
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Peter Erdelyi
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David Kardos
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2
May 2026
We analyzed 859 newsletters: these are the things publishers keep missing
We analyzed 850+ newsletter products from 32 enterprise publishers across 10 European countries. Explore the full dataset and our findings.
May 28
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
,
Daniel Baranya
, and
Sudeshna
2
1
Media development works
New media investment in CEE, launching a program for exile information spaces, updates on the EU budget negotiations, Meta loses an important court case…
May 21
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
, and
David Kardos
1
1
Two ways to break a media market
Austria subsidised its media market into stagnation, Hungary repressed its own into innovation. Both are now trying to redefine the role of the state in…
May 14
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Peter Erdelyi
and
Milo Tesselaar
4
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