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The Critical Role Support Organizations Can Play in Maturing the Local News Field
Democracy Fund;Commoner Company (2025), 16 pp.
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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The business of independent Myanmar media post-coup: Experimenting with business models inside the country and in exile
Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2024)
"More than three years after the coup, a significant majority of the 40 senior media executives interviewed for this report say they are still dependent, partially or fully, on grants to run their operations. While they cannot control the external factors impacting on their work, be that the conflic
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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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Enabling a Sustainable News Environment: A Framework for Media Finance Legislation
Inspiring Practice
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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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)
The Social Media Monetisation Playbook
Key Guidance
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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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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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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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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Project OASIS: A Research Project on the Trends, Impact and Sustainability of Independent Digital Native Media in More Than 40 Countries in Europe
SembraMedia;European Journalism Centre;International Media Support (IMS);Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD);Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC);Google News Initiative (GNI) (2023), 56 pp.
"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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With 700,000 paying subscribers, digital more profitable than print for Argentina’s Clarín
World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2023)
"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)
Media Sustainability Essentials: Building Resilience in a Time of Disruption
Key Guidance
Inspiring Practice
FHI 360;Internews;USAID (2022), 187 pp.
"This guide helps media managers identify and choose the most relevant business models and practices that fit with their missions and operating conditions. It provides a common language around core concepts of media business functions and provides links to further resources. It offers practical, str
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The Nonprofit News Guide to Earned Revenue: How You Can Build Advertising, Sponsored Content, Event Sponsorship Dollars and More Into Major and Sustainable Sources of Revenue
Institute for Nonprofit News, updated ed. (2022), 65 pp.
After the Pandemic, Building Back a Stronger Media: Inspiring Initiatives in Ensuring Media Viability
Inspiring Practice
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 81 pp.
"The pandemic brought to crisis point prior trends facing independent news media, whether online or offline or hybrid. While media became more important than ever for citizens as a source of reliable information in an insecure and continuously changing world, newsrooms struggled to pay their bills.
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The Native Advertising Playbook
Key Guidance
Inspiring Practice
International Media Support (IMS);CityDog Media (2022), 57 pp.
"[...] we have brought together relevant case studies to illustrate how content production and business relations can be reconfigured to generate fresh revenue sources, and to demonstrate which tools may be helpful along the way. These cases include special thematic projects, creative agency models,
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Collaborative Sustainability Guide: How to Earn Revenue to Grow and Thrive
Inspiring Practice
Philadelphia: Lenfest Institute for Journalism;Center for Cooperative Media (2022), 42 pp.
"What’s working to generate revenue and sustain journalism collaborations, beyond philanthropy? To answer this question, the Center for Cooperative Media, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism and the Solutions Journalism Network conducted a survey, interviewed collaborative project managers, funde
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Sustainable Innovative Journalism and New Business Models
Inspiring Practice
Quick Overview
Brussels: European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) (2021), 41 pp.
Digital Audience Revenue Strategies in CEE and the Global South
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 57 pp.
"This study provides encouraging evidence that digital audience revenue programmes – donation drives, crowdfundings, membership schemes or subscriptions – may be a viable option for independent media outlets operating in challenging political environments. Responses from 19 outlets operating in
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