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Wozu Non-Profit-Journalismus? Ein Report zu gemeinnützigem Journalismus – mit Wirkungslogiken, Qualitätskriterien und Tipps für Förder*innen
Key Guides
Berlin: PHINEO gemeinnützige AG (2020), 63 pp.
"Der Report „Wozu Non-Profit-Journalismus?“ macht sich für eine dritte Säule im Mediensystem stark: Der gemeinnützige Journalismus hält der Krise Antworten entgegen und leistet als Ergänzung zum öffentlich-rechtlichen und privaten Verlagsjournalismus einen Beitrag zur Medienvielfalt. Er is
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How to Build a Successful Subscription News Business: Lessons from Britain and Spain
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 79 pp.
"The paper explores what news companies with reader revenue models are doing through structured interviews with 26 media executives from 15 news organisations. Some of these outlets run digital subscriptions. Others have reader revenue models with a less transactional value proposition. Most of them
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Myanmar Media's Response to COVID-19
New York: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2020), 41 pp.
"In June 2020, MDIF conducted a survey of 36 Myanmar media outlets to gather information about the impact of COVID-19 on their businesses between March and May. They represent a mix of national media, as well as local media from the ethnic states and regions. Their operations are of various sizes: t
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Case Study: Media Development Investment Fund
Convergence (2019), 10 pp.
"Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) is a not-for-profit fund that provides affordable debt, equity, and quasi-equity financing as well as technical assistance to independent media companies in countries where the free press is under threat [...] As of December 31, 2018, MDIF has provided more
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"Our research suggests publishers should invest in capabilities to engage in constant testing and experimentation in digital — to build engagement among digital audiences and ultimately convert engaged readers into paying subscribers. For commercial and for-profit models in particular, publishers
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Public Funding of High-Quality Journalism
[no publisher] (2019), 58 pp.
"For this report, we have examined nine countries: the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Across all the countries surveyed, quality journalism is under pressure from well-documented and disruptive market and technology changes. Everywhere, there is growing public
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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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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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Rebooting Journalism: How Media Startups Overcame the Business Model Crisis. What Can We Learn from Eldiario.es and Mediapart?
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 78 pp.
"This research is based on the belief that there is no journalism crisis, but a business model one. So, learning from successful experiences that innovate in the business is the first step towards building a healthier media landscape in other countries. During this paper I will focus specially in tw
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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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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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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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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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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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An Introduction to Funding Journalism and Media
Key Guides
Ariadne European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights (2018), 43 pp.
"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
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Alternative Models of Financing Investigative Journalism
Deep 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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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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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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