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When 99% of your audience tells you they want more investigative journalism, don't believe them
A beginners guide to audience surveys and interpreting research data.
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Peter Erdelyi
A European Empire of Attention
A Trump that keeps on bumping, volatility in distribution and 26 active calls.
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
The 2025 Newsletter Playbook
Everything you need to know about choosing platforms, building audiences, and monetizing newsletters, featuring 19 case studies of successful models…
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
The right atrium of darkness
Hungary’s new foreign agent law shows how authoritarian regimes cut off the lifeblood of independent media: funding.
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Peter Erdelyi
The brief history of people writing things to other people
Newsletters peaked in ~1530, the Medicis invented Substack and we are running a sale for a week before starting experiments with the paywall.
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Peter Erdelyi
Media funding, weaponized
Case studies from successful newsrooms, growing Facebook referral traffic, funding results and 21 active calls.
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
The Motion, the Myth, the Multiannual Framework
While journalism scored a small but important victory in the EU budget negotiation process, a whole host of other policy battles are just beginning.
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Peter Erdelyi
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David Kardos
Abundance near Perugia
In a culture obsessed with administrative compliance, innovation rarely thrives.
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
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Rational optimism for local journalism
Google's scariest experiment, journalism's largest exit interview, MFF consultation, chocolate recommendations for Perugia and 17 active calls.
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
How to persuade the EU to spend hundreds of millions on journalism no one seems to care about?
Negotiations for the next 7 year EU budget are in full swing in Brussels.
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Peter Erdelyi
Transforming your newsroom into a record label
The Trump administration is cutting funding for USAGM, search traffic from AI is growing, a new study on audience development and 19 active calls.
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
The Hungarian policy innovation fueling the renaissance of nonprofit newsrooms
The mid-1990s saw the Hungarian parliament adopt a policy so innovative and effective at nurturing civic engagement—and later nonprofit journalism—that…
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Peter Erdelyi
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Ioana Epure
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
Misunderstanding the power of opinion writing
Impenetrable paywalls, monetization tools, investing in communities instead of scale and 20 active calls.
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Peter Erdelyi
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María Paula Ángel Benavides
The elaborate hierarchy of "cleanliness" in media funding
Our industry's funding fixation has evolved into a sort of moral purity test and it's reinforcing the authoritarian narrative that all journalism is…
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Peter Erdelyi
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