9+ million euros of funding and predictions for 2024

The most important new calls and some publishers in trouble

Welcome!

This is the inaugural issue of the Media Finance Monitor newsletter, which means three things.

• If it takes off, I will likely frame a printout and hang it in our office.

• It probably (hopefully) contains more mistakes than the next issue; I am preemptively sorry about that.

• Most importantly, I would love to hear your feedback; this is a work in progress.

This newsletter aims to keep you, senior newsroom leaders, media managers and executives up to date on specific funding opportunities and key trends, case studies and new research related to media funding. It should arrive in your inbox every second week.

I will always try to list all the active grant/funding calls that I believe are relevant to digital publishers in Central Europe. The newsletter will only catalogue calls aimed at newsrooms, publishers or groups of publishers and NOT individual journalists. We will also attempt to track the results (where funders make those publicly available) and report briefly on who got funding …