Buying time, not markets: The limits of donor funding in Hungary’s captured media system
Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism
Published online on January 12, 2026
Abstract
Journalism, Ahead of Print.
Independent journalism faces converging pressures from media capture, volatile donor priorities, and platform-driven markets accelerated by generative AI. This article presents 5 years (2020–2025) of first-hand evidence from a donor-funded program to ...
Independent journalism faces converging pressures from media capture, volatile donor priorities, and platform-driven markets accelerated by generative AI. This article presents 5 years (2020–2025) of first-hand evidence from a donor-funded program to ...