Toolbox Management & Financing

Transforming Crises Into Opportunities: Self-Managed Media in Argentina

Carolina Escudero

Media and Communication, volume 12, issue 7455 (2024), 17 pp.

"The current situation for journalism in Argentina represents a great challenge due to the continuous economic changes linked to inflation and labour precariousness. Faced with this, a phenomenon known as self-managed media has grown over the recent years, also connected to recovered media that prom ... more

Whitepaper Non-Profit-Journalismus: Handreichungen für Medien, Politik und Stiftungswesen

Leif Kramp, Stefan Weichert

Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2023), 140 pp.

"Obwohl Journalismus eine wichtige gesellschaftliche Funktion erfüllt, gilt er in Deutschland nicht als gemeinnützig. Unser „Whitepaper“ ist ein aktueller Lagebericht zum gemeinnützigen Journalismus in Deutschland und beleuchtet anhand einer Vielzahl an Fallbeispielen, welche Chancen in Proje ... more

Independence, Democracy, and Social Justice: Exploring the Viability of Media Cooperatives in Lebanon

Diala Ahwach

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2023), 44 pp.

The Nonprofit News Guide to Earned Revenue: How You Can Build Advertising, Sponsored Content, Event Sponsorship Dollars and More Into Major and Sustainable Sources of Revenue

Institute for Nonprofit News, updated ed. (2022), 65 pp.

After the Pandemic, Building Back a Stronger Media: Inspiring Initiatives in Ensuring Media Viability
Inspiring Practice

Larry Kilman

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 81 pp.

"The pandemic brought to crisis point prior trends facing independent news media, whether online or offline or hybrid. While media became more important than ever for citizens as a source of reliable information in an insecure and continuously changing world, newsrooms struggled to pay their bills. ... more

Diversity in Media and Media Management
Key Guidance

Teresa Becker, Antonia Bührig, Ashley Morais Duarte et al.

Hannover: Institute of Journalism and Communication Research (IJK) (2022), 65 pp.

"It seems that it is not easy for media companies to be more diverse. But it is important. A few companies are trying to appear more diverse in public but there is still much to be done. In the United States, Europe or Germany, minority groups are underrepresented throughout. Here are some of our ke ... more

WIN Leadership Mapping: Global Report

Gabriella Siciliano

Women in News (2022), 26 slides

"In 0 of 17 markets [in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia] did the percentage of women holding top business positions exceed 25%. The highest performer was the Philippines with 22%. In 2 of 17 markets, the percentage of women holding top editorial positions was skewed in favour of women. In ... more

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Weathering Crisis: Ensuring Media Viability, Continuity and Resilience

Ann Holifield, Petra Aldenrath, Enrique Naveda

Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 15 pp.

"DW Akademie’s holistic approach to Media Viability identifies common internal practices in news organizations that decrease their financial vulnerability to crises and disasters and outlines a framework for increasing organizational resilience." (Page 1)

Media Sustainability Essentials: Building Resilience in a Time of Disruption
Key Guidance

Inspiring Practice

Michelle Foster et al.

FHI 360; Internews; USAID (2022), 187 pp.

"This guide helps media managers identify and choose the most relevant business models and practices that fit with their missions and operating conditions. It provides a common language around core concepts of media business functions and provides links to further resources. It offers practical, str ... more

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Elements of Nonprofit News Management

Richard J. Tofel

Lenfest Institute for Journalism (2022), 83 pp.

"Richard J. Tofel, the former president and founding general manager of ProPublica, offers actionable strategies to help nonprofit newsrooms and news entrepreneurs build sustainable organizations. Drawing on his years of experience in managing and running a nonprofit newsroom, Tofel shares how to: d ... more

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Media Economics and Management

Elavarthi Sathya Prakash, Sunitha Chitrapu

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 134 pp.

"This book offers a comprehensive understanding of key concepts and terms in media economics and management and explains their applications using relevant data. Beginning with a conceptual study of media markets, industry structures, firm behaviour, public policy, production, pricing and consumption ... more

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Los medios digitales también necesitan gestión: Guía de herramientas para ordenar las organizaciones periodísticas
Key Guidance

Mariel Graupen

Velocidad; SembraMedia; International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); Luminate (2021), 51 pp.

"Esta guía reúne y explica las herramientas básicas para la gestión de las empresas periodísticas. En el ecosistema mediático, encontramos medios nativos digitales de diferente tamaño, antigüedad, y con equipos diversos. Una de las claves hacia la sostenibilidad de los medios es la gestión ... more

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Os meios digitais também precisam de gestão: Guia de ferramentas para a organização de empresas jornalísticas
Key Guidance

Mariel Graupen

Velocidad; SembraMedia; International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); Luminate (2021), 52 pp.

The State of Nonprofit News: Rising to New Challenges and Public Needs in a Crisis Year

Institute for Nonprofit News (2021), 16 pp.

"The INN Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news. Since 2018, the Institute for Nonprofit News has conducted this annual Index survey of its nonprofit news organization members to evaluate the staffing, business models, financials, and editorial focus of newsrooms in the ... more

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Digital Media Outlets Need Management Too: A Toolkit for Managing Journalism Organizations
Key Guidance

Mariel Graupen

Velocidad; SembraMedia; International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); Luminate (2021), 52 pp.

"This guide compiles and explains the basic tools for managing journalism businesses. In the media ecosystem, there are digital native media outlets of different sizes and ages, with different types of teams. Two of the keys to sustaining those media outlets are team management and leadership. Howev ... more

Propulsorio

Maxi De Rito, Felicitas Carrique

SembraMedia (2021), 76 pp.

"Aprende a desarrollar productos y medios informativos con foco en la audiencia y su sustentabilidad económica." (https://propulsorio.com)

Report: Leveraging Solutions Journalism for Revenue Growth

Solutions Journalism Network (2021), 11 pp.

"The Solutions Journalism Revenue Project (SJRP), which ran between February 2020 and February 2021, aimed to explore how a diverse range of newsrooms could leverage solutions journalism to generate revenue. Among the questions the project sought to answer were: Can reporting on responses to social ... more

Media's Future in a Post-Covid World

John Wilpers

UPM; FIPP (2021), 72 pp.

"The road to creating a successful corporate culture in the new hybrid work era is lined with landmines, but it is also loaded with new opportunities for more diverse, more motivated, and more talented workforces. Financial sustainability was already a dicey challenge pre-Covid. Companies producing ... more

What I Learned from the Nonprofit News Revolution

Richard J. Tofel

Columbia Journalism Review, June 25 (2021)

"How much money do you need to start? Other than identifying a mission and an editorial vision, this is probably the most important question a would-be nonprofit news entrepreneur should ask at the outset. If you don’t ask it, you’re making the most basic error in starting a business. Moreover, ... more