Sitemap - 2024 - Media Finance Monitor - Center for Sustainable Media

Capes, carbohydrates and coming back to writing

Major new funding heading to CEE news media

A benevolent extraterrestrial entity with unlimited resources should fund investigative journalism in perpetuity

Public discourse is shifting everywhere. Are we still part of the relevant conversations?

Meeting user needs pays: How reader-centric content drives revenue

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There is no Pax Europaea without a safe, resilient and sovereign information ecosystem

How to lose 200,000+ subscribers in 3 days

An apolitical beagle will lead the revolt of creators against mainstream media

We can strive to build profitable newsrooms while acknowledging that journalism requires public support

In the labyrinth of Greek media capture

Turning journalism’s existential crisis into an opportunity

We need to change the way journalism is funded in Europe

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Salary transparency as an extreme sport in CEE newsrooms

The Power of Small: How media capture helped catalyze local innovation in Hungary

News and big tech have been battling for so long that victory has become nearly indistinguishable from defeat

A Bulgarian newsroom built an AI application. They needed to solve four challenges before monetizing it.

The news business may actually become more financially sustainable without newsrooms

Donor countries spend hundreds of millions of dollars on media support. Only 8% goes directly to local organizations.

This is either the collapse of independent media or a new paradigm in content production

Credibility and cash flows: building trust with 21st century audiences with Joy Mayer

Third-party cookies may stay around well beyond the heat death of the universe

Reimagining media funding through a prison experiment and a deadly disease

The “tofu-eating wokerati” may end up funding your journalism

The truth behind online news subscription rates in CEE

How a one-woman meal-planning newsletter in Romania got 26 thousand subscribers

This may be the EU’s biggest media funding mistake

Inside IFPIM's strategy to raise $1 billion for public interest journalism

Post-soviet French pastry and audience revenues in the CEE media space

Eye-opening new report mapping US philanthropic funding for the global information space

Key journalism funder considers becoming invitation-only

Shorting the stocks of companies exposed by your newsroom

Hope for CEE journalism, cyclone strategy, super bundles and one million subscribers

New investment fund for the Balkans and insights into what media funders are looking for

11+ million euros in new grant calls and the clash between publishers and tech companies

Market failure, creative destruction and 1 billion dollars in subscription revenues

From the “Rich Guy Rescue Plan” to the latest round of platform favoritism

New grants for climate stories and registration walls done right

9+ million euros of funding and predictions for 2024

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