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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
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
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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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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
,
María Paula Ángel Benavides
,
Daniel Baranya
, and
Sudeshna
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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
,
María Paula Ángel Benavides
, and
David Kardos
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
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3
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
and
María Paula Ángel Benavides
2
1
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
2
1
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
and
María Paula Ángel Benavides
3
1
Power near Perugia
Two stories about media money, access, and why the International Journalism Festival matters.
Apr 16
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Peter Erdelyi
3
1
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
10
5
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
and
Peter Erdelyi
3
2
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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