"The current situation for journalism in Argentina represents a great challenge due to the continuous economic changes linked to inflation and labour precariousness. Faced with this, a phenomenon known as self-managed media has grown over the recent years, also connected to recovered media that prom
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otes innovation, providing material for use in newsrooms to produce novel content and connect with audiences. For this explorative study, based on journalists' roles and innovation, we conducted a mixed-methods design to analyse self-managed media composed of recovered, cooperatives, community, popular, and alternative media. First, a focus group was held with 10 communicators to understand their current situation; second, 60 journalists were consulted about their roles and innovations; finally, in-depth interviews were conducd with three communicators who work on self-managed media at the Community and Cooperative Media Confederation. The findings reveal the presence of innovative actions, reported by 90% of respondents, and confirm that 70% of the consulted journalists had assumed new roles in management and administration. In addition, 80% of the journalists praised community work as fostering a sense of belonging and its associated benefits regarding motivation and freedom. These sentiments were further validated by the insights shared by the three interviewees. This sense of belonging could be included in the fifth area of innovation in journalism, which centres on the social dimension." (Abstract)
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"Obwohl Journalismus eine wichtige gesellschaftliche Funktion erfüllt, gilt er in Deutschland nicht als gemeinnützig. Unser „Whitepaper“ ist ein aktueller Lagebericht zum gemeinnützigen Journalismus in Deutschland und beleuchtet anhand einer Vielzahl an Fallbeispielen, welche Chancen in Proje
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kten liegen, die statt auf monetäre Gewinne auf das Gemeinwohl abzielen. Die Medienwissenschaftler Leif Kramp und Stephan Weichert haben dazu Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse unterschiedlicher Stakeholder eingeholt. Sie haben Protagonisten aus dem Stiftungswesen, von Non-Profit-Organisationen und aus der Medienpolitik sowie von Verbänden befragt. Die Studienautoren machen konkrete Vorschläge für Veränderungen an den regulatorischen Maßnahmen und Förderstrukturen, um Non-Profit-Journalismus den Rücken zu stärken." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Richard J. Tofel, the former president and founding general manager of ProPublica, offers actionable strategies to help nonprofit newsrooms and news entrepreneurs build sustainable organizations. Drawing on his years of experience in managing and running a nonprofit newsroom, Tofel shares how to: d
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raft a strong mission statement; create a business plan, devise a fundraising strategy; build a board; sustain organizational structure; and much more." (Back cover)
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"How much money do you need to start? Other than identifying a mission and an editorial vision, this is probably the most important question a would-be nonprofit news entrepreneur should ask at the outset. If you don’t ask it, you’re making the most basic error in starting a business. Moreover,
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to answer this question, you need a comprehensive initial expense budget, charting how much you’ll spend on everything from salaries to freelance to office space (if any) to benefits to photos to publishing tools to marketing and beyond. In my view, it’s a mistake to begin operations without at least 18 months of spending on hand, and two years is even better. This is hard, and quite likely daunting."
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"The INN Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news. Since 2018, the Institute for Nonprofit News has conducted this annual Index survey of its nonprofit news organization members to evaluate the staffing, business models, financials, and editorial focus of newsrooms in the
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growing movement of public service journalism." (About the index)
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"The Solutions Journalism Revenue Project (SJRP), which ran between February 2020 and February 2021, aimed to explore how a diverse range of newsrooms could leverage solutions journalism to generate revenue. Among the questions the project sought to answer were: Can reporting on responses to social
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problems help newsrooms attract financial backers and contribute to their economic sustainability? Is there a business case that supports this journalistic practice? Over the yearlong project, we gathered both quantitative and qualitative evidence indicating that producing solutions journalism can help news organizations bring in revenue. We are particularly heartened by this outcome given the extraordinary challenges faced by newsrooms across the industry this past year, including COVID-19 and urgent news issues, such as the movement for racial justice and the presidential election, that demanded significant attention from already stretched newsroom staff. Our partner newsrooms’ dedication to experimenting with and keeping the focus on solutions journalism is testimony to its value in advancing their revenue objectives and larger goals of serving communities with a different approach to producing information that is in the public interest. The takeaways below reflect results from SJN’s work, both with the 12 U.S.-based newsrooms that formed the yearlong SJRP cohort and with numerous other newsrooms we’ve worked with outside the cohort where data and insights are relevant to this report." (Introduction, page 1)
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"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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t frei von kommerziellen Interessen, sucht die Nähe zu seinen Nutzer*innen und agiert innovativ und lösungsorientiert. Der Report gibt erstmals einen Überblick über die Akteur*innen des gemeinnützigen Journalismus im deutschsprachigen Raum, er enthält Tipps für potenzielle Förderer*innen und nennt Empfehlungen für eine Reform des Gemeinnützigkeitsrechts." (https://rudolf-augstein-stiftung.de)
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"Ashoka is an organization that supports social entrepreneurs around the world and has the longest track record of doing so. It has identified and supported over 3,500 “Ashoka Fellows,” many of whom are in the media sector. Therefore, Ashoka sits on a treasure trove of data on transformative med
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ia innovations. We analyzed this data to understand how social entrepreneurs around the world are trying to improve the media landscape, assessed the most successful approaches, and identified gaps that social entrepreneurship has not yet filled. To do so, we selected a subset of Ashoka Fellows whose primary aim is to improve the media landscape and who are demonstrably making a substantial impact. We call them “Core Media Fellows” and selected them from an initial pool of 231 Fellows, after gathering extensive data and applying rigorous selection criteria to identify the final cohort. Each of these fifty social entrepreneurs seeks to harness the tectonic shifts under way in the global media landscape to more constructively serve societal interests. Among the group, we found stunning diversity. For example, Core Media Fellows hailed from twenty-two countries. But we also discerned broad similarities. Indeed, each of the fifty Fellows pursued one of five overarching goals: Improving the infrastructure and environment within which the media operates; Improving standards of reporting to strengthen the quality of journalism; Ensuring the media is a vehicle for civic engagement; Making the media a self-sustaining business; Increasing media literacy by providing the public with diverse and representative content. Our study of social entrepreneurs reveals important lessons—spanning strategies to represent marginalized voices to partnership models within and beyond the media industry—for how to transform the media. But it also uncovers areas of need, such as business model innovations, where too few social entrepreneurs have found the support to pilot approaches that ultimately could reverse the media’s declining fortunes." (Pages 1-2)
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"This widely accessible book by Magda Konieczna, an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University in the United States, provides a critical and broad examination of nonprofits in the American journalism landscape. Konieczna employs very rich and insightful case studies of three American non
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profits—the Center for Public Integrity, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, and MinnPost—to show the terms of a new logic of journalism, the perils of news production outside legacy news media, and the upside of the journalistic reform projects at the periphery of traditional journalism." (Review by David Cheruiyot in International Journal of Communication, vol. 15, 2021,
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"En España la crisis económica ha tenido un correlato directo en el sector periodístico y conducido al cierre de medios de referencia y al aumento de los despidos y la precarización del sector. En este contexto adverso, las cooperativas de medios se han convertido en una vía de salida para much
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os profesionales por cuanto ofrecen la posibilidad de construir un periodismo autónomo e identificado con el interés de los propios trabajadores y de la ciudadanía. Este artículo esboza una cartografía de las cooperativas periodísticas en España durante el período de crisis económica que arranca en 2008. Se intenta caracterizar cuál es el origen e ideario de estos proyectos, y cuáles son sus principales modelos de organización y sostenibilidad a fin de garantizar una agenda informativa alternativa e independiente." (Resumen)
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"Our study focuses on Sesame Street and sets out to examine how Sesame Workshop, as a ‘nonprofit’ organization targeting children, has been able to continuously transform and make itself relevant in a predominantly commercial children’s television landscape dominated by transnational ownership
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structures. The analysis includes an investigation of Sesame Workshop’s mission statements, organizational structure, annual fiscal reports, promotional material and other written sources from the 1970s to the 2010s. We focus on the Workshop’s own arguments and reasons for why their ‘non-profit’ status was, and still is, better at taking care of children’s interests than the for-profit companies. These understandings are held up against the, at times, very commercial logic guiding the workshop’s business model, and analysed within the economic and political context of children’s television in the United States and the Workshop’s key international target markets. Our theoretical framework draws upon insights from work on political economy and children’s media and comparative media systems." (Abstract)
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"Die neuere Journalismusentwicklung in Deutschland ist nicht nur von Krisensymptomen wie Glaubwürdigkeitsverlusten, der Erosion herkömmlicher Geschäftsmodelle, Stellenabbau und einer Prekarisierung des Berufs gekennzeichnet. Als positive Momente lassen sich neue Journalismusformen infolge der Dig
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italisierung, eine verstärkte Rechercheorientierung sowie neue crossmediale Formen der journalistischen Zusammenarbeit beobachten. An allen drei Phänomenen hat Correctiv Anteil, ein 2014 in Essen und Berlin gegründetes sogenanntes Recherchezentrum, das sich gemeinnützigen Journalismus zum Nutzen der Gesellschaft zum Ziel gesetzt hat und dessen Arbeit derzeit hauptsächlich durch Stiftungen möglich gemacht wird. Der Beitrag, der methodisch u. a. auf Leitfadeninterviews und Redaktionsbeobachtungen beruht, beschreibt das Ethos und die Arbeitsweise von Correctiv. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem neuartigen Modell einer nichtexklusiven Zusammenarbeit mit ausgewählten Medien. Damit will Correctiv Reichweite in die Gesellschaft hinein erzielen. Abschließend wird die neuere Entwicklung des Recherchezentrums, insbesondere das Fact-Checking im Auftrag von Facebook, problematisiert." (Abstract)
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"Nonprofit news organizations offer the potential to become part of the bedrock of a strong local news and information ecosystem. The field of nonprofit news, as illustrated by the 20 organizations profiled in this study, has continued to scale its impact and inch closer toward more sustainable busi
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ness models. But progress has been uneven and for the majority of organizations in the study, sustainability is just a premise on the distant horizon." (Conclusion)
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