Sustainability, by design.

What we do

MainSpring is a think tank and consultancy working across Europe, with particular depth in the DACH region: Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

We advise publishers on sustainability and business development, run large-scale cross-border media projects funded by the EU and other institutional donors, and work with exiled journalists rebuilding newsrooms in new countries.

Peter is the founding director of the Center for Sustainable Media and MainSpring GmbH. He is a media executive from Budapest with over 25 years of experience in journalism and media management. He consults for the Media Development Investment Fund and teaches digital media strategy at ELTE University in Budapest. As a Fellow at the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, he researched digital audience revenue strategies in countries where the media environment is under pressure. Over the past two decades he has launched and run various digital outlets and served on the Executive Board of the European Digital Media Observatory. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Miklós is the co-founder of the Center for Sustainable Media and MainSpring GmbH. He is a Budapest-based grant and development expert who works with media companies, NGOs, SMEs and large corporations from the R&D sector. He and his team have led the award and successful implementation of more than €20 million in grant funding over the past two decades. Involved in the media sector since the mid-2000s, he managed the publishing house of EurActiv.hu, the Brussels-based Hungarian-language news portal, and most recently has been running large-scale EU- and US-funded media development projects in Hungary.