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Media funding, weaponized

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

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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.

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Abundance near Perugia

In a culture obsessed with administrative compliance, innovation rarely thrives.

Apr 17 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

Rational optimism for local journalism

Google's scariest experiment, journalism's largest exit interview, MFF consultation, chocolate recommendations for Perugia and 17 active calls.

Apr 3 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

March 2025

How to persuade the EU to spend hundreds of millions on journalism no one seems to care about?

Negotiations for the next 7 year EU budget are in full swing in Brussels.

Mar 27 •

Transforming your newsroom into a record label

The Trump administration is cutting funding for USAGM, search traffic from AI is growing, a new study on audience development and 19 active calls.

Mar 20 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

The Hungarian policy innovation fueling the renaissance of nonprofit newsrooms

The mid-1990s saw the Hungarian parliament adopt a policy so innovative and effective at nurturing civic engagement—and later nonprofit journalism—that…

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

Misunderstanding the power of opinion writing

Impenetrable paywalls, monetization tools, investing in communities instead of scale and 20 active calls.

Mar 6 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

February 2025

The elaborate hierarchy of "cleanliness" in media funding

Our industry's funding fixation has evolved into a sort of moral purity test and it's reinforcing the authoritarian narrative that all journalism is…

Feb 27 •

Subscription ceilings and EU budgets

The Global North may be slowly running out of new subscribers, Reuters scores a win against AI on copyright, negotiations for the next EU budget and 23…

Feb 20 •

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

Termination notices and my epistemic insecurities

USAID implementing partners across the globe began receiving termination notices. For many independent newsrooms, survival may depend on how quickly…

Feb 13 •

Don Quixote and a fistful of frozen dollars

11 thousand subscribers in four days, OpenAI worried about intellectual property, smart paywalls, a new study on the publishing tech stack and 18 active…

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María Paula Ángel Benavides

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