Partizán


Partizán is a Hungarian independent media outlet. Run by, it is one of the most popular Hungarian political YouTube channels.
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History

Preceded by the channel Slejm – a torkon ragadt politika, Partizán was started in the autumn of 2018 by, a theater manager turned political activist. In early 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, Partizán broadcast live every day. Prior to the 2022 parliamentary elections, the channel deployed a mobile studio on a truck that went to rural Hungarian towns with the goal of informing more people about the upcoming election, since the majority of people living there consume solely pro-government media and vote for the ruling Fidesz party. In November 2025, Partizán was fined 200,000 forints for the interview of, in which Aranyosi made insulting remarks about Romani people.

Programming

180 volunteers work for the channel, and as of 2020 50% of the viewers are aged 18–35. Partizán mostly posts political interviews, including with opposition politicians who could hardly get airtime on public television, such as Péter Márki-Zay and Péter Magyar, and foreign politicians, like Bernie Sanders and Angela Merkel. Fidesz politicians have not appeared in interviews despite having been invited numerous times. Partizán also holds political debates, talk shows, podcasts, newsletters, live events, and produces documentaries dealing with topics, including the takeover of the University of Theatre and Film Arts, and the enrichment of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his family. Its flagship daily show is a roundtable which analyzes the day's news from a leftist perspective. Partizán's videos often receive hundreds of thousands of views. The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has described the channel as providing "in-depth, trustworthy reporting on issues ignored by most other outlets".

Financing

The channel is financed by tenders and micro-donors, with some larger sources, including the National Endowment for Democracy, German Marshall Fund, and The Foundation for Democracy and Pluralism.
Through 1% donations of payroll taxes, Partizán received 191 million forints from 21,122 people in 2023, and 416 million forints from 36,978 people in 2024, becoming the most donated to organization in that year. In 2025, 38,383 people donated 471 million forints.

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