This text comes from IPI’s newsletter The Outlook. Sign up to receive future editions directly to your inbox. 📮 This week, we get back to business with the fourth installment of the Revenue Roadmap series, delving into how you can make use of the Earned-Income Roadmap. The Challenge: taking your media from product to profit When you have a […]

IPI Media Innovation and Sustainability team just kicked off the 2024 Local News Accelerator, a five-month programme designed to provide 10 selected media organizations with skills and strategies to grow their audiences and empower their teams. This year we received 80 applications from over 25 countries, from startups to established media. We are excited to see […]

Imagine a country where the government has abolished the public media licence fee in 2022 and replaced it with a financing based on a percentage of the revenue from  value added tax, with no legal guarantees to maintain the funding in the future. The party that won the most votes in the last elections wants […]

A new smear campaign targeting Hungarian media outlet 444.hu and its international journalism project partners renews concerns about the erosion of press freedom in Hungary. The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) condemns the attacks and warns they may be used to justify official harassment of independent media. On 16 August 2024, Hungary’s pro-government media launched […]