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Crowdfunding Investigations: Lessons Learned About Harnessing Audience Buy-In from Ireland, Brazil, and Portugal
Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), February 14 (2024)
"Investigative journalism is expensive. Partnerships and grants can help but can also introduce conditions or stall proceedings. Could crowdfunding, where audience members donate to support an investigation, offer an alternative? “Crowdfunding serves as a crucial revenue source in investigative jo
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Manifiesto sobre la Viabilidad de los Medios de comunicación: Un marco común para la acción conjunta
Key Guides
Bonn et al.: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Media Viability Manifesto Initiative; UNESCO IPDC (2024), 37 pp.
"El Manifiesto sobre la Viabilidad de los Medios de comunicación (MVM, por sus siglas en inglés) proporciona un marco común, urgentemente necesario, para la acción conjunta de la comunidad mundial de desarrollo de los medios. Su objetivo es triple: fomentar la claridad conceptual, reforzar la co
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Manifeste sur la viabilité des médias: Un cadre commun pour une action conjointe
Key Guides
Bonn et al.: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Media Viability Manifesto Initiative; UNESCO IPDC (2024), 37 pp.
"Le Manifeste sur la viabilité des médias (MVM) établit un cadre commun, dont le besoin est urgent, pour une action conjointe de la part de la communauté mondiale du développement des médias. Son objectif est triple : Promouvoir une vision claire, renforcer la collaboration stratégique entre
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Enabling a Sustainable News Environment: A Framework for Media Finance Legislation
Deep Insights
Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI) (2024), 46 pp.
"This study examines 23 recently enacted or proposed legislative efforts from 2018 through 2024 aimed at providing revenue streams for journalism. We hope it offers a fulsome method for analyzing possible paths forward. There are two main parts of the report: Part One groups this legislation into se
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Peer-based research funding as a model for journalism funding
Journalism, volume 25, issue 11 (2024), pp. 2440-2459
"Financing high-quality journalistic reporting is becoming increasingly difficult worldwide and economic pressure has intensified in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While numerous alternative funding possibilities are discussed, ranging from membership models to government funding, they should no
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Creating National Funds to Support Journalism and Public-Interest Media
Deep Insights
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2023), 17 pp.
"Global interest in funds to support journalism is on the rise, as governments and journalists seek ways to support quality information even as the business model has become more difficult. Some countries, including those in Northern Europe and the European Union, have been using these journalism fu
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Is the Arab Audience Willing to Pay for Online News? Predictors of Their Paying Intent
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 16, issue 1 (2023), pp. 35-53
"This study examines to what extent Arab audiences are willing to support these strategies, and what factors influence their willingness to pay (WTP) for online news, using a survey of 530 adults. The study found most of the public is not willing to pay for online newspapers, but are willing to pay
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"Despite the political, economic and linguistic differences that characterise the 40+ countries where we conducted this research, the 540 digital native media organisations featured in our Project Oasis directory face many common challenges and opportunities. Among our key findings:
They use social
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Public Support for Local and Community Media in Three Countries: A Comparative Study
African Journalism Studies, volume 44, issue 4 (2023), pp. 310-326
"In the discussion of possible solutions to the business crisis facing legacy media, insufficient attention has been paid to existing arrangements that channel public money to media serving marginalised audiences, particularly in Global South countries. Argentina and South Africa are upper middle-in
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The Social Media Monetisation Playbook
Key Guides
International Media Support (IMS); On.ge (2023), 46 pp.
"This playbook is designed for media managers and journalists who are looking to monetise their social media channels and diversify their income — particularly in countries where English is not the predominant language. It will provide you with practical strategies and tips for creating and moneti
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"With 30 million readers, and paying digital subscribers surging past 700,000, Clarín has the distinction of having the largest number of paid digital users for any news publisher in Latin America." (Introduction)
Breite×Tiefe×Nähe: Auf der Suche nach der Erfolgsformel für spendenfinanzierten digitalen Lokaljournalismus im ländlichen Raum
Berlin: Netzwerk Recherche (2023), 50 pp.
"[...] in den vergangenen Jahren wurden in Deutschland zwar zahlreiche neue, meist digitale Lokalmedien gegründet, diese haben ihren Sitz und Schwerpunkt jedoch sehr häufig in Städten. Der Report analysiert daher die Situation und Einstellungen abseits der urbanen Zentren. Für welche Art von Lok
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Deep Dive: How The Hindu Built its Subscription Business
World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), August 2 (2023)
"The Hindu Group (THG), a 143-year-old old legacy news brand, dove into subscriptions in 2019. The Hindu approached subscriptions with the mindset of revenue optimisation while being agnostic to the source." (Summary)
National journalism funds: A GFMD impact policy paper
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2023), 17 pp.
"As such, a National Fund for Journalism (NFJ) is a dedicated structure that is designed with a strategic sectoral purpose to provide long-term funding and financing to an independent journalism ecosystem in a particular country, region or place (as a Local or City Fund for Journalism, for example).
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Sustaining Journalism, Sustaining Democracy: A Policy Guide on Platforms and the Press
UCLA Information Policy Lab (2023), 68 pp.
"This publication considers the range of policy changes that have been tried or recommended by global regulators, assessing their impacts on press freedom and news media sustainability, with consideration for the risk of capture, and other potential tradeoffs of these interventions. It examines four
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Digital Patronage: Toward a New Model of Building a Radio Station
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 1861-1879
"This article analyzes how patronage crowdfunding is becoming a central part of the model for building a radio station. Implementing this model requires mobilizing listeners to engage in the direct, long-term financial support of a station. The analysis conducted in this article is based on a case s
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Exiting / transitioning from international partnerships
INTRAC (2022), 27 pp.
"This toolkit is designed to help small INGOs plan for and undertake exits and transitions from international partnerships with national civil society partners based
in other countries. It includes resources for times when exits or transitions have been planned, and also for when there has been a c
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