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Money for nothing and content for free? Zahlungsbereitschaft für digitaljournalistische Inhalte
Düsseldorf: Landesanstalt für Medien NRW (2019), 42 pp.
"Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, wie etablierte Medienunternehmen und journalistische Neugründungen in Deutschland nutzerseitige Zahlungsbereitschaft für digitaljournalistische Inhalte besser identifizieren, fördern und abschöpfen können. Auf Grundlage einer für die deutsche Online-Bevölke
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Charitable Crowdfunding in China: An Emergent Channel for Setting Policy Agendas?
China Quarterly, issue 240 (2019), pp. 936-966
"Social media in China has not only become a popular means of communication, but also expanded the interaction between the government and online citizens. Why have some charitable crowdfunding campaigns had agenda-setting influence on public policy, while others have had limited or no impact? Based
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Cultural Crowdfunding: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization
London: University of Westminster Press (2019), vii, 118 pp.
"Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (and carry out promotional tasks) is a significant shift, especially when supported by morphing public policies, supposedly enhancing cultural diversity and accessibility. The aim of this book is to propo
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Membership in News & Beyond: What Media Can Learn from Other Member-Driven Movements
Austin: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (2019), 45 pp.
"The traditional financial models for news are dying. Could churches, environmental movements, and open source communities hold clues to its survival? We’re at a moment of profound transition and successive crisis for news. Our mission is to explore how membership models might help. A key takeaway
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"This study was specfically intended to: 1. provide comprehensive insight into the public’s media consumption patterns, and its underlying causes: a) values; b) needs and interests, particularly regarding media content; c) motivation and aspirations, with specific emphasis on buying media content;
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How Media Companies Use Data to Sign Up Digital Subscribers (and Keep Them)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 36 pp.
"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
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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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Crowdfunding Movies: A Business Model Analysis from Strategic Management Studies
In: Handbook of State Aid for Film: Finance, Industries and Regulation
Cham: Springer (2018), pp. 635-656
"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”.
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Case Studies on Paywall Implementation: Gazeta Wyborzca and Malaysiakini
New York; Prague: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2018), 27 pp.
"When Wyborcza.pl was launched back in 2008, besides its quality, one of the best things about it was that its content was freely accessible. Once the paywall was up in 2012, the publisher had to find a way to present this content differently. According to Bregula, this was the most important task w
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Launching a Paywall: What You and Your Team Need to Know
Key Guidance
New York; Prague: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2018), 39 pp.
Crowdfunding of Journalism as a Way to Enhance Transparency: The Case of the Platform Rapport
Nordicom-Information, volume 40, issue 1 (2018), pp. 91-94
"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
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Digital Monetization for Publishers: New Ways to Capture Consumer Revenue
Associated Press (AP) (2018), 20 pp.
"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
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Business Strategies for Magazine Publishing: How to Survive in the Digital Age
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 176 pp.
"Business Strategies for Magazine Publishing explores tactics for creating financially sustainable publications in the 21st century. Mary Hogarth, media specialist, Senior Fellow (HEA) and lecturer in Journalism at Bournemouth University, analyses the historical development of the magazine industry,
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Alternative Models of Financing Investigative Journalism
Top Insights
Hamburg: University of Hamburg, Hamburg Business School; 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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Paying the Piper: The Sustainability of the News Industry and Journalism in South Africa in a Time of Digital Transformation and Political Uncertainty
Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies (2018), 108 pp.
"This report explores the recent trajectory of South African news with a specific focus on the economic sustainability of news media. Digital news consumption on mobile phone, and especially via Social Media on Smart Phones (SMSP) is fracturing audiences and reducing traditional sources of revenue.
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Media Feast, News Famine: Ten Global Advertising Trends That Threaten Independent Journalism
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 25 pp.
"This report looks at ten factors that have altered the media marketplace and that pose challenges to national and local news producers and their sources of revenue. They include ways in which governments interfere in media markets; changes in the structure of news distribution and audience behavior
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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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