Media Finance Monitor
Peter Erdelyi, David Kardos, Sudeshna, Isabela Pop, Milo Tesselaar, Alinda Veiszer, María Paula Ángel Benavides, Sebastian Esser, Daniel BaranyaYour 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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A major funder isn't talking about journalism. I'm pleased.
Ford’s new priorities, Nazi records in Claude, Meta’s scraping ambitions, California’s newsroom tax credits and 32 active calls.
This week on Media Finance Monitor
€20.5 million in EU media funding opens today. Here’s what you need to know.
Comparing call documents from 2024, 2025 and this year reveal quite a lot about what the European Commission wants to fund.
In the first season of Foundation, there is a whole episode with pilgrims trying to cross a scorching desert hoping...
Nobody needs newsrooms anymore
Mediahuis’s investment in Kessel is a welcome bet on European publishing infrastructure and on content production and monetization that increasingly happens outside newsrooms.
I hadn’t considered printing presses as security infrastructure...
Journalism just lost a billion it never had
The new Irish proposal would cut the entire EU budget by 8% but the funding envelope for journalism programs would likely lose a lot more.
I didn’t want to ruin your weekend, but we have bad news about the EU budget negotiations.
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
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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.
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.
A perpertually curious and tired woman hoping to share her love for all things journalism, writing, identity, womanhood, food, and cinema.
(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.
2002-2006 Klubradio 2004-2012 MTV (Hungarian Public Media) 2012-2015 freelancer 2015-2018 Hír tv (News Channel) 2018- freelancer (www.patreon.com/veiszeralinda)
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