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Impact Dashboard 2020
New York; Prague: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2020), 50 pp.
"Starting with support to media companies in countries transitioning from communist systems to free markets back in 1996, to being at the forefront of investing in digital news and information startups in emerging and frontier markets in 2019, MDIF has invested in 119 independent media businesses ac
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Money for nothing and content for free? Paid content, Plattformen und Zahlungsbereitschaft im digitalen Journalismus
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 209 pp.
"Die vorliegende Studie stellt Nutzerinnen und Nutzer in den Mittelpunkt. Sie fragt sowohl nach den Gründen für fehlende Zahlungsbereitschaft als auch danach, warum und wofür gezahlt wird. Auch wenn die Grundtendenz einer stark ausgeprägten Gratismentalität gegenüber digitaljournalistischen In
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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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Accepting the Digital Challenge: Business Models and Audience Participation in Online Native Media
Journal: Media, volume 1, issue 1 (2020), pp. 78-91
"The aim of this proposal is to present the evolution of the digital native media in Spain in order to compare their current situation with European success stories. For that purpose, we have conducted a comparative case study between three highlighted Spanish digital native news outlets and three f
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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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Income Models of Independent Media in Difficult Contexts
Deep Insights
Free Press Unlimited (2020), 48 pp.
"Diversification with age: The media in this research are in a constant process of diversifying their revenue streams. Generally speaking, the longer a medium exists, the more income streams a medium has. This shows that diversification of income models takes time and patience. Donor funding remains
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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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"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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Guide to Audience Revenue and Engagement
Colombia Journalism School (2018), 121 pp.
"This report is intended to aid staff from news organizations and media entrepreneurs who wish to grow their revenue by deepening interactions with their audiences. It’s based on hundreds of conversations and interviews with journalists, managers, and members themselves, including newsroom fieldwo
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Launching a Paywall: What You and Your Team Need to Know
Key Guides
New York; Prague: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2018), 39 pp.
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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