The Future Media Lab. team is continuing our “In touch with innovation” series on our blog with a series of Q&A’s that were conducted with media start-ups from across Europe. In this edition, we spoke with Tamás Bodoky, editor in chief and executive director at Atlatszo.hu in Hungary. Bodoky co-founded Atlatszo.hu, a watchdog NGO and investigative journalism center, in 2011. Atlatszo.hu has received many awards for their efforts, including the European Citizen Prize of the European Parliament in 2014 and Freedom of Expression Award of Index on Censorship in 2015.

In this edition of the Future Media Lab. news round-up, Karin Fleming looks into how Europe's media companies are experimenting with different business models online, discovery widgets on publishers sites and the Commission's mid-term review of the DSM strategy

The Future Media Lab. team is continuing our “In touch with innovation” series on our blog with a series of Q&A’s that were conducted with media start-ups from across Europe. In this edition, we spoke with Diana Rus, Publishers Relations UK at Opinary in Germany. Opinary is a venture-backed media start-up that established a new way to make people’s voices heard in online content. Their technology helps publishers and brands to get into conversations with their audiences, listen to their users and build a closer relationships with target groups.

MEP Michal Boni shares a transcript of the introductory speech he gave to the World Café session at the 2017 Future Media Lab. annual conference, which took place in Brussels on 2 May.

In this week's news round-up, Karin looks at the importance of celebrating press freedom across the world (even as it's in decline), dealing with digital intermediaries and how to pop the (filter) bubble.