The Budapest Beacon

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The Budapest Beacon
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Type News website
Publisher Real Reporting Foundation
Editor-in-chiefRobert Field
Staff writers5
Founded13 October 2013
Ceased publication13 April 2018
Headquarters Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Website Budapest Beacon (EN) Budapest Beacon (HU)

The Budapest Beacon was an online newspaper that reported on current events in Hungary. It was published by United States-based Real Reporting Foundation, a news organization.

Contents

Online presence

In July 2014, Hungarian news portals reported that The Budapest Beacon planned to launch a Hungarian-language news website that September. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

The newspaper was often critical of the Fidesz government.

A number of Hungarian and international media outlets have reported on Hungarian events using content attributed to The Budapest Beacon, including The Jerusalem Post, [7] [8] the GlobalPost, [9] Catholic World News, [10] Xplatloop.com, [11] and Politics.hu, [12] The Budapest Times, [13] Mandiner.hu, [14] [15] Der Standard , [16] and Gawker, [17] Foreign Policy, [18] The Washington Post, [19] and Haaretz . [20]

Defunction

The online newspaper ceased publication on 13 April 2018. [21]

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  2. ↑ "Új lap indul ősszel – volt origósokkal". HVG. HVG.hu. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Új lapot indítanak az "Origo-árvák"". nol.hu. Népszabadság. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
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