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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Digital Journalism

Bruce Mutsvairo, Kristin Skare Orgeret (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxi, 444 pp.

"This book responds to mounting calls to broaden the theorization of digital journalism, addressing critical questions about an emerging yet rapidly expanding area of study, and presenting multiple entry points and approaches that help us understand digital journalism better. Seeking to establish it ... more

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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

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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.

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Welche Öffentlichkeit brauchen wir? Zur Zukunft des Journalismus und demokratischer Medien

Hans-Jürgen Arlt, Benedikt Linden (eds.)

Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2022), 236 pp.

"Die elf Beiträge der Autor:innen aus Medienwissenschaft und -praxis untersuchen Finanzierung, Produktion und Distribution medialer Öffentlichkeiten sowie Themen, Formate und Rezeption auf ihre Defizite und ihr progressives Potential. Die Analysen und Essays argumentieren unter anderem für die Ve ... more

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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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Independent Media in Lebanon: An Economic Outlook

Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2021), 10 pp.

"Alternative media platforms in Lebanon vary in size and expenditures. Annual turnovers range between USD 15,000 to almost USD 1.1 million. Editorial costs make up the bulk of all alternative media platforms. Namely the salaries of core team members and journalists, as well as the fees paid to freel ... ancers, correspondents, and outside consultants/writers. Secondary costs include production equipment, rent, operation, equipment, legal fees, and technical feels. All interviewed independent platforms are non-profit. Almost all members of independent platforms are motivated primarily by their love of the job. Most independent platforms have relied on volunteering, either totally or partially, from their conception to their current stage. None of the platforms interviewed have a devoted person or team in charge of marketing and sales in the traditional sense of buying ads or working on partnerships. Partnerships are usually rare, approached informally, by word-of-mouth and networks, and decided up by editorial teams. All platforms have one person (full-timer or part-timer) in charge of marketing the platform’s own content on social media, but not advertising other brands on their own platforms, except The961. Almost all the platforms are unsatisfied with the current promotion model on social media. Most concerns are related to the clash between the platform’s values and the ethics and politics of social media platforms. Complaints also touched upon the fact that independent media have to invest time and money to create content, and then they have to pay social media to host it, rather than get paid by social media. Some platforms, such as Khateera, have adopted a pragmatic mindset from the start. “Our only objective is to get our message across to as wide an audience as possible,” they said. All media have agreed that good journalism costs money and generates very little, therefore other revenue streams are required to sustain it. All independent media interviewed have relied mostly on grants, except The961. Grants provide core funding and project-based funding. Both Daraj and Megaphone have also relied on volunteers but have shifted away from it. Sentiments towards grants vary. Most platforms in Lebanon have chosen donors that are not related to national, local or foreign authorities; donors that preserve their editorial integrity: i.e., no interference in editorial decisions and alignment with values and ethics. They all have a good relationship with their donors." (Findings, page 3) more

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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

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Non-Profit Journalism in Germany: Report on Quality Criteria, Logic Models and Funding Tips in Non-Profit Journalism. Executive Summary

Charlotte Buttkus, Florian Hinze, Igor Ryabinin

Berlin: Phineo (2020), 7 pp.

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Wozu Non-Profit-Journalismus? Ein Report zu gemeinnützigem Journalismus – mit Wirkungslogiken, Qualitätskriterien und Tipps für Förder*innen
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Charlotte Buttkus, Igor Ryabinin, Florian Hinze

Berlin: PHINEO gemeinnützige AG (2020), 63 pp.

"Der Report „Wozu Non-Profit-Journalismus?“ macht sich für eine dritte Säule im Mediensystem stark: Der gemeinnützige Journalismus hält der Krise Antworten entgegen und leistet als Ergänzung zum öffentlich-rechtlichen und privaten Verlagsjournalismus einen Beitrag zur Medienvielfalt. Er is ... more

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Vivir o sobrevivir? Sostenibilidad de las alternativas mediáticas en Uruguay

Gabriel Kaplún (coord.)

Montevideo: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 67 pp.

"Presentamos aquí datos básicos de los 13 casos analizados, principalmente desde la perspectiva de sus responsables. La Diaria, fundado en 2006, es un periódico impreso [...] Portal 180 es un portal web informativo que opera con una lógica empresarial basada en la venta de espacios publicitarios ... [...] Sudestada es un portal web que busca focalizarse en «la investigación periodística, el periodismo de datos y las coberturas de contexto» [...] Canal U es una señal de televisión que se emite en sistemas para abonados («cables») nacionales y regionales [...] Giro TV fue un proyecto empresarial que se conformó entre La Diaria y un conjunto de realizadores audiovisuales para presentarse al llamado a televisión digital terrestre comercial en 2013 [...] Mi Canal, un proyecto de la central de trabajadores PIT-CNT, también se presentó y obtuvo una frecuencia en el llamado de televisión digital terrestre de 2013 [...] Parking Films es una productora audiovisual de cine y televisión, proyecto unipersonal reciente (2014) de un realizador con trayectoria previa en otras productoras [...] Coral Films-Efecto Cine es una empresa dedicada a la realización de películas con potencialidad de difusión masiva (Coral) y a la proyección itinerante en pantalla inflable en espacios públicos de filmes propios y de otros realizadores uruguayos (Efecto Cine) [...] Tiranos Temblad difundía semanal o quincenalmente en YouTube acontecimientos uruguayos seleccionados de los videos subidos a esa red por los usuarios [...] El responsable del semanario impreso San José Hoy transitó una experiencia anterior, el periódico cooperativo Hechos de San José, que en sus tres años de existencia en los 80 empataba las cuentas [...] La Asociación de Radios del Interior (RAMI) reúne a 140 emisoras distribuidas en todo el interior del país [...] Las radios comunitarias uruguayas surgieron en la década de los 90 y se mantuvieron en la ilegalidad hasta la aprobación de una ley que inició un proceso de regularización que ha amparado hasta ahora a 165 [...] Televisión Nacional de Uruguay (TNU), el canal estatal fundado en 1965, cubre casi todo el territorio nacional gracias a una red de repetidoras locales." (Página 11-13) more

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The New Advertisers: How Foundation Funding Impacts Journalism

Patrick Ferrucci, Jacob L. Nelson

Media and Communication, volume 7, issue 4 (2019), pp. 45-55

"Many journalism stakeholders have begun looking to philanthropic foundations to help newsrooms find economic sustainability. The rapidly expanding role of foundations as a revenue source for news publishers raises an important question: How do foundations exercise their influence over the newsrooms ... more

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Investigative Journalism in Africa: An Exploratory Study of Non-Profit Investigative Journalism Organizations in Africa

Ntibinyane Ntibinyane

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 99 pp.

"This exploratory study [.] argues that in a continent where traditional media organizations are increasingly failing to hold power to account, not-for-profit organizations are leading by example, setting the agenda and constantly scrutinizing those in power. This study further looks at the motivati ... more

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VTDigger: A Rising Star in Nonprofit News

Tim Griggs

Institute for Nonprofit News; Politics and Public Policy Shorenstein Center on Media (2018), 35 pp.

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Funding the News: Foundations and Nonprofit Media

Matthew Nisbet, John Wihbey, Silje Kristiansen, Aleszu Bajak

Politics and Public Policy Shorenstein Center on Media; School of Journalism Northeastern University (2018), 69 pp.

"The authors assessed 32,422 relevant grants totaling $1.8 billion distributed by 6,568 foundations supporting journalism and media-related activities between 2010 and 2015. About a third of this funding or $570 million was dedicated to journalism higher education, the Newseum, journalism fellowship ... more

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Journalism Without Profit: Making News when the Market Fails

Magda Konieczna

New York: Oxford University Press (2018), x, 252 pp.

"This widely accessible book by Magda Konieczna, an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University in the United States, provides a critical and broad examination of nonprofits in the American journalism landscape. Konieczna employs very rich and insightful case studies of three American non ... more

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Cooperativas de medios en España: Un periodismo emprendedor y ciudadano en tiempos de crisis

Alejandro Barranquero Carretero, Mariá Sánchez Moncada

Revista de Estudios Cooperativos, issue 128 (2018), pp. 36-58

"En España la crisis económica ha tenido un correlato directo en el sector periodístico y conducido al cierre de medios de referencia y al aumento de los despidos y la precarización del sector. En este contexto adverso, las cooperativas de medios se han convertido en una vía de salida para much ... more

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Recherchejournalismus für das Gemeinwohl: Correctiv – eine Journalismusorganisation neuen Typs in der Entwicklung

Volker Lilienthal

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 65, issue 4 (2017), pp. 659-681

"Die neuere Journalismusentwicklung in Deutschland ist nicht nur von Krisensymptomen wie Glaubwürdigkeitsverlusten, der Erosion herkömmlicher Geschäftsmodelle, Stellenabbau und einer Prekarisierung des Berufs gekennzeichnet. Als positive Momente lassen sich neue Journalismusformen infolge der Dig ... more

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Negotiating ‘non-profit’: The survival strategies of the Sesame Workshop

Helle S. Jensen, Katalin Lustyik

Media International Australia, volume 163, issue 1 (2017), pp. 97-106

"Our study focuses on Sesame Street and sets out to examine how Sesame Workshop, as a ‘nonprofit’ organization targeting children, has been able to continuously transform and make itself relevant in a predominantly commercial children’s television landscape dominated by transnational ownership ... more

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Coverage of Poverty by a Nonprofit News Outlet: A Comparative Study

Mohammad Yousuf, David Craig

[authors] (2017), 17 pp.

"This qualitative content analysis has examined coverage of poverty-related issues by Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit news organization with a mission of covering public problems, particularly those of disadvantaged people. The first set of coverage constituted the body of stories written on poverty fro ... more

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Same Beds, Different Dreams? Charitable Foundations and Newsroom Independence in the Global South

Anya Schiffrin

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 32 pp.

"The growing trend of non-profit journalism has received much attention of late, but this report takes a unique look at how non-profit funding is affecting journalism in the Global South. Amidst the collapse of traditional business models for news organizations, funding from philanthropic foundation ... more

Wozu Non-Profit-Journalismus? Ein Report zu gemeinnützigem Journalismus – mit Wirkungslogiken, Qualitätskriterien und Tipps für Förder*innen Key Guidance

Wozu Non-Profit-Journalismus? Ein Report zu gemeinnützigem Journalismus – mit Wirkungslogiken, Qualitätskriterien und Tipps für Förder*innen
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