In this live recording from the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, I debated Peter Erdelyi, director of the Center for Sustainable Media, about the role of state subsidies in building sustainable media businesses.

Chapters:

• 00:00 Beehiiv Sponsor Story

• 01:29 Intro

• 07:36 TRB at The International Journalism Festival

• 09:22 Hungary Media Capture

• 12:00 Decentralized Info Economy

• 15:36 Subsidies and Bad Incentives

• 20:44 Billionaires and Influence

• 22:35 OpenAI Buys TBPN

• 26:51 Institutions vs Individuals

• 29:28 New Subsidy Models