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.

In July 2014, Hungarian news portals reported that The Budapest Beacon planned to launch a Hungarian-language news website that September.

A number of Hungarian and international media outlets have reported on Hungarian events using content attributed to The Budapest Beacon, including The Jerusalem Post,[7][8] the GlobalPost,[9] Catholic World News,[10] Xplatloop.com,[11] and Politics.hu,[12] The Budapest Times,[13] Mandiner.hu,[14][15] Der Standard,[16] and Gawker,[17] Foreign Policy,[18] The Washington Post,[19] and Haaretz.

[20] The online newspaper ceased publication on 13 April 2018.