Media Finance Monitor
Peter Erdelyi, Sebastian Esser, María Paula Ángel Benavides, Sudeshna, Isabela Pop, Alinda Veiszer, David Kardos, Daniel Baranya, Milo TesselaarYour weekly newsletter on media funding, large-scale grants, impact investment, audience revenues and more. Powered by the Center for Sustainable Media.
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Protect the information ecosystem, not every organisation
The case for consolidation, AI’s dependence on the people it displaces, $3m in reader revenue in Memphis, a Capital Stacks session for partners, and 22 active funding calls.
This week on Media Finance Monitor
The most lucrative piece of journalism ever published
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We launched Capital Stacks of Journalism
In 2025 the two of us shared a stage at the Impact Days in Vienna, on a panel about funding journalism. Afterwards, someone from the audience who did a little investing came over with a confession: they had never thought of journalism as so...
The AI influencers would like to see your newsroom’s budget
OpenAI’s interest in creators, the hard work of publishing less, Capital Stacks of Journalism is in print, local newsrooms profitability story and 28 active calls.
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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.
For the past few weeks I have been trying to figure out the new Hungarian government’s secret plan for th...
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Founding director of the Center for Sustainable Media. Consults for MDIF and teaches digital media strategy at the ELTE University in Budapest. Researched digital audience revenue strategies in CEE and the Global South at Oxford.
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A perpertually curious and tired woman hoping to share her love for all things journalism, writing, identity, womanhood, food, and cinema.
2002-2006 Klubradio 2004-2012 MTV (Hungarian Public Media) 2012-2015 freelancer 2015-2018 Hír tv (News Channel) 2018- freelancer (www.patreon.com/veiszeralinda)
EU policy expert and Advocacy Director at CSM. Former EP advisor on digital legislation, media policy, and rule of law. Supporting sustainable journalism and fundamental rights. Experienced in EU Budget and controls for democratic accountability.
(Media) Entrepreneur & strategist. In between sectors, institutions and ideas. Thinks big, works concrete. For Vienna, for Austria, for Europe and with whomever is serious about systemic change.
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