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"Section 1 summarises the background to and rationale for philanthropic funding of the media, including from a social justice and human rights perspective. This should help Ariadne grantmakers who are not sure if and why they should support media directly to make an informed decision, or to help mak ... more

Mapping the World's Digital Media Ecosystem: The Quest for Sustainability

In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 257-276
"Over the past years, a range of different databases have been constructed, and research efforts have been made to find the key to making digital news ventures successful. Many of them have searched for best practices, or a secret recipe for a business model that would make the news business economi ... more
"El movimiento podcaster está formado por una amplia variedad de participantes: pequeños, medianos, independientes, corporativos, fugaces, históricos. Este artículo propone la descripción de cuatro casos caracterizados como “redes de podcast”. Estos proyectos fueron diseñados para y subsis ... more
"Bürgerbeteiligung ist keine Zauberei, sondern ein Handwerk, das sich lernen lässt. Zu diesem Handwerk gehört auch das Wissen um die Methoden, Verfahren und Anwendungsbereiche dialogorientierter Bürgerbeteiligung. Das Buch unternimmt einen sachkundigen und erfahrungsbasierten Streifzug durch die ... more
"Journalist fellow Michael Leitner takes a deep dive into media organisations who already use data to efficiently acquire, engage and furthermore keep subscribers. Do we need automated paywalls, and what data do we need to use to keep readers interested? Key Insights: Dynamic paywalls are no silver ... more
"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, ( ... more
"Over the course of the past few years, crowdfunding platforms have made significant gains in art and technology, and more recently in the field of journalism. This article provides an overview of Rapport, a Finnish crowdfunding platform designed to allow a new approach for journalists to fund their ... more

The Radio Station: Broadcasting, Podcasting, and Streaming

New York; London: Routledge, 10th ed. (2018), xxiii, 458 pp.
"This book’s tenth edition continues its long tradition of guiding readers to a solid understanding of who does what, when, and why in a professionally managed station. This new edition explains what "radio" in America has been, where it is today, and where it is going, covering the basics of how ... more
"This book highlights storytelling as a concrete and viable method which can be used in various operational fields in organizations: from change management to project management and knowledge management, it presents employees’ stories on past projects and the diverse, essential aspects of corporat ... more
"Newspapers have come a long way since youngsters hawked the latest edition on street corners or metal boxes collected coins from anonymous visitors sucked in by a juicy headline. Today’s publishers need to be much more savvy about distribution, getting their arms around who their customers are, w ... more
"This booklet is a starter guide for foundations interested in exploring how to make impactful journalism and community-information grants. It shares the experiences of dozens of foundations that have recently funded news and information projects. It also introduces the work of peer foundations that ... more
"Design Thinking und dessen Kombination mit Systems Thinking, Business Ökosystem Design und Big Data Analytics befähigt uns, radikale Innovationen in einer digitalisierten Welt zu realisieren. Das kompakte Design Thinking Buch reflektiert auf ansprechende Weise das zugrundeliegende Mindset und gib ... more
"Winner of the 2019 Robert Picard Book Award, the Handbook of Media Management and Economics has become a required reference for students, professors, policy makers and industry practitioners. The volume was developed around two primary objectives: assessing the state of knowledge for the key topics ... more
"Ashoka is an organization that supports social entrepreneurs around the world and has the longest track record of doing so. It has identified and supported over 3,500 “Ashoka Fellows,” many of whom are in the media sector. Therefore, Ashoka sits on a treasure trove of data on transformative med ... more
"By stepping back and questioning the current mindset, the faults of the status quo stand out in stark relief--and this guide gives you the tools and frameworks you need to kick off a digital transformation. Design Thinking is about approaching things differently with a strong user orientation and f ... more

A Global Media Resource Model: Understanding News Media Viability Under Varying Environmental Conditions

In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 221-242
"[The authors] introduce a conceptual model for organizations and other stakeholders wishing to monitor and evaluate sustainable journalism. Their chapter provides a theoretical foundation for the argument that journalistic media competes for a wide range of resources that determine their success an ... more
"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
"A crowdfunding platform for movies is an alternative way of refunding movie production costs. Usually, such platform combines several types of funding, including sourcing the Internet community to gather small private donations, that is, a revenue stream which is typically named “crowdfunding”. ... more