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The tedious economics of sudden press freedom
We built a dashboard tracking where Hungarian taxpayers sent their 1%. For independent media, this may have been the high-water mark.
Sep 17
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Peter Erdelyi
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Nobody understands user needs like the person robbing you
What an airport scam taught me about user needs, why Substack is paying journalists’ legal bills, and someone actually buying our EU Funding tool. Plus…
Sep 10
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
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We built a tool to navigate European media funding
Mapped out €850+ million in funding to help you create better proposals.
Sep 3
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Peter Erdelyi
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August 2026
US government money is back. Europe will not like what it funds.
Three million dollars to drive the EU crazy, no questions allowed from creators, our big and beautiful new website, scaling local news and 33 active…
Aug 27
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
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Five things to read while not reading newsletters
This week’s active calls, a short August break and some of our better work from 2026.
Aug 13
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
2
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
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
2
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
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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
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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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