Media Finance Monitor - Center for Sustainable Media
Peter Erdelyi, María Paula Ángel Benavides, David Kardos, Milo Tesselaar, Giordano ZambelliYour weekly newsletter on media funding, large-scale grants, impact investment, audience revenues and more. Powered by the Center for Sustainable Media.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 110 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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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 in the EU and 26 active calls.
Welcome!
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 their information ecosystem.
The train ride between Budapest and Vienna takes somewher...
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 study in community monetization and 23 active calls.
Welcome!
Microlooting the next EU budget
Hasan Piker, Dwarkesh Patel, and what the leaked AgoraEU text still misses.
Some of you read that headline and immediately thought: oh God, he’s doing a Hasan Piker take. Others wondered if I meant microdosing. To both groups all I can say...
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 about local sustainability and 26 active calls.
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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.
Communication and Media.
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.
Postdoctoral researcher in media&com at SMIT-VUB, Brussels. I explore how journalism is changing, and what role public institutions play in shaping that change. My work focuses on journalism innovation, media subsidies, and collaborative journalism.
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