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Entorno regulatorio y políticas públicas para la sostenibilidad de los medios comunitarios en Honduras
Montevideo: Observacom (2023), 33 pp.
Entorno regulatorio y políticas públicas para la sostenibilidad de los medios comunitarios en Guatemala
Montevideo: Observacom (2023), 26 pp.
Strings Attached: Sustainability and Dependence in Five Models of Local and Community Media
Top Insights
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2022), pp. 179-197
"Sustainability is a key issue for local and community media in the Global South as well as the Global North, albeit in different ways. After identifying significant gaps in the sustainability literature, the article presents and discusses a taxonomy of ‘models’ – the relationships that arise
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Greening Africa’s News Deserts: The Search for Sustainable Local Media in Sub-Saharan Africa
Top Insights
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), 38 pp.
"Among principles that should underpin policy choices are: a focus on systemic impact; particular attention on the areas where information poverty is greatest; platform-neutrality, while preferring platforms used most commonly; ongoing monitoring of developments in and around media at local levels t
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Entorno regulatorio y políticas públicas para la sostenibilidad de los medios comunitarios en El Salvador
Montevideo: Observacom (2022), 47 pp.
Entorno regulatorio y políticas públicas para la sostenibilidad de los medios comunitarios en América Latina
Montevideo: Observacom (2022), 60 pp.
Lust auf lokal - das Handbuch für Community-Journalismus: Im Dialog gründen, recherchieren, wachsen
Key Guidance
Essen: Correctiv (2022), 208 pp.
"Dem Lokaljournalismus geht es nicht gut. Verlage kämpfen seit Jahren mit Anzeigenverlusten, die Arbeitsbelastung nimmt kontinuierlich zu, immer mehr Redaktionen werden dichtgemacht. Dabei ist gerade Lokaljournalismus wichtig für unsere Demokratie. Community-Journalismus kann ein Weg raus aus dies
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Vivir o sobrevivir? Sostenibilidad de las alternativas mediáticas en Uruguay
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
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The Relevance of Public Policies for the Sustainability of Community Media: Lessons from Argentina
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 4, issue 2 (2019), pp. 74-90
"Since 2004 and for the first time in the history of broadcasting in the region, a dozen Latin American countries have acknowledged community radio and television stations as legal providers of audiovisual communication services. In Argentina, a law passed in 2009 not only awarded legal recognition
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Los medios sin fines de lucro entre la Ley Audiovisual y los decretos: Estrategias, desafíos y debates en el escenario 2009-2015
Córdoba: Editorial de la UNC (2016), 199 pp.
"En octubre de 2009, la Ley 26522 inaugura un escenario inédito para las radios y televisoras del sector social-comunitario. La norma, por primera vez en la historia de la radiodifusión argentina, reconoce a todos los medios sin fines de lucro –incluidas las cooperativas- como prestadores legale
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Myanmar Community Media Start-up Strategy: Building Blocks for a Sustainable Beginning of Community Media in Myanmar
UNDP Myanmar; Empowerhouse (2016), 23 pp.
Gaining Ground: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
Miami: Knight Foundation (2015), 24 pp.
"Nonprofit news organizations offer the potential to become part of the bedrock of a strong local news and information ecosystem. The field of nonprofit news, as illustrated by the 20 organizations profiled in this study, has continued to scale its impact and inch closer toward more sustainable busi
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The Development and Sustainability of Indigenous African Language Newspapers: A Case Study of 'Seipone', 'Nthavela' and 'Nghoho News'
Limpopo: Master Thesis University of Limpopo (2014), ix, 149 pp.
"There is a conspicuous importance of having newspapers that publish in the indigenous African languages for the indigenous population in a democratic dispensation. The indigenous African languages are key components of their respective cultures. The survival of the language is, in some way, depende
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Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (2014), 254 pp.
"Examining experiences at a wide variety of community papers – from a 7,000-circulation weekly in West Virginia to a 50,000-circulation daily in California and a 150,000-circulation Spanish-language weekly in the heart of Chicago – "Saving Community Journalism" is designed to help journalists an
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Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
Miami: Knight Foundation (2011), 27 pp.
"This report is based on an extensive analysis of several nonprofit news sites conducted by Community Wealth Ventures (CWV), a management consulting firm that focuses on innovative approaches to the growth and sustainability of nonprofit organizations. Knight Foundation commissioned the review as pa
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Papier de discussion : Complémentarités entre services financiers de proximité et offreurs d’information locale. Des pistes de solutions pour un financement des médias communautaires par l’intermédiaire des institutions de microfinance
Paris: Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2011), 19 pp.
"L’objectif de cet article est d’essayer de définir les contours d’expérimentations de financement des médias de proximité par les circuits de finance locale notamment dans les milieux ruraux et enclavés. Les médias de proximité et les établissements de microfinance ont considérés ic
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Community Media Sustainability Guide
Key Guidance
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2009), 90 pp.
"Like other publications on "commmunity media sustainability", this guide looks not only at financial, but also institutional sustainability, and social sustainability, i.e. it's rootedness in the community to which it belongs. The first section highlights the centrality of mission for sustainabilit
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A Study of Ten Selected Philippine Community Newspapers
Media Asia, volume 10, issue 4 (1983), pp. 192-202
"A major imperative for rural newspapers is their long-term survival in the face of limited advertising revenues and low subscriptions. Crispin Maslog’s analysis of ten successful community newspapers shows that not only is it possible for rural newspapers to survive in the long run, but that the
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