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Where is the money? A global perspective on forms of funding, financing and investment for public interest media
Top Insights
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2024), 63 pp.
"Two years in the making, this report unfolds regional perspectives of new forms of funding, financing and investment for public interest media. It provides a multistakeholder reflection in four regions of the world on how public interest media can best be supported over the next decade. Through con
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Hybrid Investigative Journalism
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiv, 203 pp.
"This book explores entrepreneurial attempts to combine traditional investigative journalism with alternative ways of organising this work. It transcends watershed investigative projects in favour of the ways in which new actors (citizens, technologists, bloggers and local reporters, among others) j
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Desafíos (y propuestas) para la viabilidad de la actividad periodística en América Latina
Paris; Montevideo: UNESCO; Observacom (2023), 39 pp.
Funding journalism using participatory grantmaking: A guide
Media Reform Coalition; Public Interest News Foundation (PINF); Institute of Welsh Affairs (2023), 55 pp.
Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2022
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 46 pp.
"The report shows that 2022 will be a year of careful consolidation for a news industry that has been both disrupted and galvanised by the drawn-out COVID-19 crisis. Both journalists and audiences have, to some degree, been 'burnt out' by the relentless intensity of the news agenda, alongside increa
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Finding the Funds for Journalism to Thrive: Policy Options to Support Media Viability
Top Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 16 pp.
"The traditional business model of the news media has been deeply eroded by a shift in advertising revenues to online platforms. Media outlets must intensify efforts towards more inclusive journalism, alternative business models and diversified revenue streams. Urgent action from other actors is als
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Position Paper: The Sustainability of Journalism and Competition in the Digital Economy
South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) (2022), 51 pp.
"This position paper reports on the findings of a research project conducted from late-2021 to early-2022 involving consultations with a range of stakeholders in the news media and digital advertising industries, regulators, and government officials, as well as extensive desk research on the state o
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The State of Innovation and Media Viability in East Africa: From Indepth Media House Surveys
Top Insights
Graduate School of Media and Communications Aga Khan University; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 71 pp.
"The fact that about half of the news-producing media organizations categorise themselves as having insufficient newsroom resources as far as equipment, technology and training are concerned suggests that there is still need to look into equipping newsrooms technologically and continuing efforts to
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Sustainable Innovative Journalism and New Business Models
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Quick Overview
Brussels: European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) (2021), 41 pp.
A New Deal for Journalism
Forum on Information & Democracy (2021), 78 pp.
"The report presents a plan to guarantee up to 0.1% of GDP a year into journalism to safeguard its social function for the future. The New Deal would be a massive commitment both at the national and the international scale to ensure the social function of journalism. Christophe Deloire, chair of the
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Budget and Finance for Journalism Collaborations
Center for Cooperative Media (2020), 39 pp.
Entrepreneurial Journalism in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks for Media in the Digital Age. Learnings from a Conference Held by KAS Media Africa in Accra, Ghana, 16-19 September 2018
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 64 pp.
"[...] there seems to be an understanding that the media is important and that society needs the media. In October 2018, KAS Media Africa, therefore, gathered the CEOs of media houses, publishers and editors-in-chief from 16 different countries, both from Anglophone and Frenchspeaking Africa, in Acc
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Investigative Journalism in Africa: An Exploratory Study of Non-Profit Investigative Journalism Organizations in Africa
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
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Journalism Without Profit: Making News when the Market Fails
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
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Alternative Models of Financing Investigative Journalism
Top Insights
Hamburg: Hamburg Business School University of Hamburg; Hans-Bredow-Institut (2018), 42 pp.
"This report aims to identify, evaluate, and discuss models to finance investigative journalism in the EU. To provide a thorough evaluation, we developed a set of criteria that cover six areas to that the financial source may exert an influence from high to low degrees. Those are (1) Independence, (
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Democracy's Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism
Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, paperback ed. (2018), x, 368 pp.
"The book analyzes the market for investigative reporting by examining more than 12,000 prize competition entries from 1979 to 2010 in the annual awards contest of Investigative Reporters and Editors. The results show what these investigative works in the United States uncovered and their impacts, a
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"My Boss is 18,000 People": Journalism Practices in Crowdfunded Media Organizations
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 110-118
"This article analyses three crowdfunded media organizations in three different countries – Krautreporter (Germany), Direkt36 (Hungary), and Colta (Russia). Using qualitative in-depth interviews, it demonstrates that journalism practices in a crowdfunded newsroom are very different from those in o
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Financing Quality Journalism: Research Into Existing and New Models to Finance Quality Journalism and Possible Strategies for Moving Forward
Shaerpa (2015), 11 pp.
"Based on 25 in-person and skype meetings and extensive desk research, we identified a significant trend in the journalistic ecosystem in which information is created, delivered and monetized: the trend toward distributed production and delivery and subsequent absence of monetizing capacity and infr
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Confronting Austerity: Financial and Employment Models in Journalism
Brussels: European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) (2014), 34 pp.
"The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and its national member organisations must be the driving force for the future of journalism. Whether this notion is realistic or not, it has been analysed by Dr. Andreas K. Bittner, an online journalist from Germany, who provides a sharp and forward-loo
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