Telex

Telex’s staff comprises 80 full-time and five part-time employees, covering a wide range of topics from politics and economy to science, health, society, human rights, entertainment, and sports. The newsroom publishes interviews, features, opinion pieces, reviews, and investigative and narrative journalism stories. Telex has more than 35,000 subscribers to its newsletters.

The story of Telex started on 24 July 2020, when nearly the entire Index.hu staff resigned over an “open attempt to exert pressure” on the site after the owner sacked its editor-in-chief, Szabolcs Dull.

The staff launched a Facebook page the same day, and over the following months, it became its most important line of communicating and publishing stories until the team got its new site up and running. (Thanks to beginning on Facebook, the media outlet now has more than 530,000 followers on that platform.)

Márton Kárpáti, the former deputy editor-in-chief of Index.hu, founded Telex on 31 July, and the team began building a donation page and the news site itself. By September, the newsroom comprised 50 employees, primarily journalists who resigned from Index.hu. After a crowdfunding campaign, the team received nearly 900,000 euros from more than 41,000 supporters, and nine weeks after walking out of Index.hu, they launched Telex in October 2020.

Telex also received a donation of 200,000 euros from one of the largest Czech media groups, Economia, whose titles include financial daily Hospodarske Noviny and weekly magazine Respekt, and is one of the largest Czech publishing houses.

“Telex’s commitment to delivering outstanding journalism, particularly at a time when it is most needed, resonated strongly with us,” the chair of the board at Economia, Zuzana Reznickova, said in a statement.

The organisation also has a Transylvanian sister site called Transtelex.

Last updated: January 2023

Source: Oasis Europe