The Budapest Beacon


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.

Online presence

In July 2014, Hungarian news portals reported that The Budapest Beacon planned to launch a Hungarian-language news website that September.
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, the GlobalPost, Catholic World News, Xplatloop.com, and Politics.hu, The Budapest Times, Mandiner.hu, Der Standard, and Gawker, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, and Haaretz.

Defunction

The online newspaper ceased publication on 13 April 2018.