The money is not yet in shape. It can be enforced if Telex and the bidder’s financial and legal experts find out how to do it in a transparent and legal manner.

Economia, one of the largest Czech media companies, is donating 200,000 euros (72 million guilders) to the new tab for outgoing indexers, telex, which will soon be launched. Reuters. Economia, editor of the business daily Hospodarske Noviny and the weekly Respekt, has been owned by Czech businessman and investor Zdenek Bakala for more than a decade.

Zuzana Reznickova, president of the editorial board of directors, wrote in a statement about the grant that they have received Telex’s commitment to excellent journalism, especially now that they need it most, for which they offered 200,000 euros to start the work editorial as a sign of solidarity.

Márton Kárpáti, founding owner of the company that publishes Telex, said that the Reutersthat Economia had indicated that it would support the emerging document and were open to the initiative. He also indicated that details of the deal were still being worked out. Kárpáti also said that Economia would not get a stake in Telex in exchange for the offer.

Monday night to Telex The news of Economia’s decision also appeared on the community page. The newspaper wrote that the Czech publisher had made a letter of intent in support of them. According to their record, they were contacted when Veronika Munk, the resigned deputy managing editor of the index, gave an interview to Respekt.

“He then approached the reporter who made the material to read the owner of the article and would be interested in Telex, and consider our story in general. We contacted each other, and the events have accelerated in the coming days, it turns out that one of the richest businessmen in the Czech Republic, Zdenek Bakala, and the publisher Economia would like to help start our newspaper with a large donation. As far as we know, we are satisfied that the intention is real and that the donor is not risky. We do not have a donation yet, it is just a statement of intent, a prerequisite for all of our financial and legal experts to work with their experts on how this can be done in a transparent and legal way, “they wrote.

Reuters recalled that staff at Hungary’s largest news portal, the government-critical index, resigned after claiming they perceived an overt attempt at influence, after which management transferred the editor-in-chief.

Telex recently launched a fundraising campaign in which more than 32,000 people have already supported the new newspaper.



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At home

According to András Sztankóczy, Gergely Ákos Balogh “can no longer be considered a person close to politics.”

The professional trips abroad of Hungarian journalists were listed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


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Economy

The letter from the Ministry of the Environment also reached Telex.