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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…
11 hrs ago
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Peter Erdelyi
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Milo Tesselaar
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The market for belonging
An exciting new thesis on the information ecosystem, Substack is loosing one of its biggest brands, trying to get platforms to pay for news, a case…
May 7
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
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April 2026
Microlooting the next EU budget
Hasan Piker, Dwarkesh Patel, and what the leaked AgoraEU text still misses.
Apr 30
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Peter Erdelyi
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The toxic story journalism tells its funders
Scaring the hell out of risk capital, repression is a better driver of innovation than state subsidies, a fashion app invests in journalism, a new study…
Apr 23
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
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Power near Perugia
Two stories about media money, access, and why the International Journalism Festival matters.
Apr 16
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Peter Erdelyi
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Diminishing returns on media capture
Hungary just ran the most expensive experiment in media capture in EU history. The results were not what the experimenters hoped for.
Apr 14
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Peter Erdelyi
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What the sector actually wants from the next EU budget
Results from our Media Funding Policy Lab, a new tool for building newsletters, TikTok's new paid service, a French investigative outlet where readers…
Apr 9
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
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Peter Erdelyi
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I studied journalism innovation programmes for years, these are the patterns I found
A guest post by Giordano Zambelli who spent four delightful years of his PhD looking at what happens when public institutions inject public money into…
Apr 2
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Giordano Zambelli
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March 2026
The awkward media economics of regime change in Hungary
What the end of Fidesz's rule would mean for advertising, audience revenue, institutional funding, and the talent market.
Mar 30
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Peter Erdelyi
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We gave up on advertising too soon
A new policy brief on fixing the online advertising ecosystem, two initiatives to get AI companies to pay publishers, Meta courting creators, local…
Mar 26
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
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Peter Erdelyi
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Why Europe should buy Substack
Digital sovereignty is either a policy goal or a conference theme. Here's how to tell the difference.
Mar 19
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Milo Tesselaar
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Peter Erdelyi
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Pluralism needs a business model
A foresight exercise in Bruges, scary new Google patents, micropayments still debated, a successful local newsletter, AgoraEU updates and 24 active…
Mar 13
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
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