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The Local News Playbook: Creating Value for a Sustainable Future
Deep Insights
London; Miami: FT Strategies; Knight Foundation (2026), 105 pp.
"Drawing on global interviews with newsroom leaders, a cross-market survey of exemplary organisations, and FT Strategies’ work with more than 1,000 media businesses worldwide, the playbook identifies the core drivers that distinguish financially sustainable, community-rooted local news. It reframe
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Unlocking local capital: What does it take to address the funding needs of public interest media with locally anchored solutions?
International Media Support (IMS) (2026), 29 pp.
"In general terms, this learning brief moves forward from the question of “where is the money?” to the question of “what does it take to unlock it?” In other words, how do we work alongside local government, private, philanthropic, and community sectors to meet the funding needs of journalis
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Journalism and Media Funding in Europe
Brussels: Philea - Philanthropy Europe Association; Journalism Funders Forum (2026)
"Based on a sample of 36 philanthropic organisations from 12 countries, the report shows that while funding for the field remains relatively limited, it is diverse, evolving and increasingly shaped by concerns around democracy, misinformation and the long-term sustainability of independent journalis
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Journalism’s new realism: strategies for media sustainability and growth
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), May 13 (2026)
"At the 20th edition of the International Journalism Festival (#ijf26), held in Perugia from 15–18 April 2026, sustainability and funding were at the very heart of the agenda. Across a series of panels, media practitioners and funders from around the world mapped both the damage and the way forwar
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Does Media Ownership Matter for Journalistic Content? A Systematic Scoping Review of Empirical Studies
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2025), pp. 865–888
"This study assesses the current state of empirical research on the role of media ownership on journalistic content. Regardless of the differences in focus and research design, our systematic scoping review of 56 studies shows that media ownership matters. The vast majority of studies show that medi
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Catalysing private capital: Financing the future of public interest media
Deep Insights
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2025), 19 pp.
"This report responds to a rising demand from the media development field to understand how private capital can complement and strengthen traditional donor funding. It explores the potential of innovative financial instruments to support sustainable, independent journalism and build healthy informat
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The Economic Imperative of Investing in Public Interest Media
Forum on Information & Democracy (2025), 20 pp.
"Halting the decline of public interest media requires systematically recognizing, measuring, and rewarding the true value of public interest media to national and global economies and enabling governments to more effectively guide both public and private innovation. As we have argued, too much of t
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Política, negocios y periodismo: 80 años de Clarín
Bernal: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (2025), 192 pp.
"Durante muchos años, la clase política argentina convivió con el mito que planteaba que ningún gobierno soportaba cuatro tapas críticas del diario Clarín. El periódico había alcanzado tiradas de una magnitud que lo ubicaban en un lugar central de la vida cotidiana de los argentinos. Cuando
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Big Tech Must Go! Digital Giants are Destroying our Democracies and Economies. We will stop them
Deep Insights
Frankfurt; Chicago: Campus Verlag; University of Chicago Press (2025), 285 pp.
"Digital monopolies shape ever larger parts of our lives. The platforms are increasingly controlling the public formation of political opinion and at the same time abolishing our free market economy. Digital expert Martin Andree shows in detail how far the hostile takeover of our society by the tech
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Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI: Policy Manual
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2025), 147 pp.
"With this Policy Manual, we provide guidance for building an information space free from oligopolistic control, resilient to manipulation, and supportive of independent, pluralistic media. This Policy Manual proposes both structural reforms and targeted mitigation measures – focusing on media vis
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Medienökonomie: Eine Einführung mit Leitfragen
Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2., erw. Aufl. (2025), xiii, 317 pp.
"Anhand von 13 Leitfragen führt dieses Open-Access-Lehrbuch in die Medienökonomie ein und stellt wesentliche Konzepte und Perspektiven vor. In den Antworten werden die in den Fragen aufgeworfenen Phänomene und Problemstellungen kontextualisiert und die jeweils involvierten Akteure, Theorien und E
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"The Euromedia Ownership Monitor (EurOMo) has a single mission: enhance transparency of news media ownership and control in European Union countries. It monitors media ownership and control by publishing: databases with information on ownership and control of the most relevant news media in all EU c
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Media property: Mapping the field and future trajectories in the digital age
European Journal of Communication, volume 39, issue 5 (2024), pp. 412-425
"Ownership has been a core research theme in parts of media and communication science since its establishment as a distinct research field. In particular, scholars in the field of political economy of the media, media sociology and media industry studies typically pay close attention to the role own
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Media Viability in Southern Africa: An Exploratory Study
Harare: Media Monitors; UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa (2024), 51 pp.
"[...] Media Monitors conducted interviews with managers from six news outlets in six countries across Southern Africa. The study revealed that media viability challenges in the region stem from insufficient funding due to declining advertising and audience markets. The shift in audience consumption
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[Pauta oficial]
Páginas para la Libertad de Expresión (FLIP, Colombia), issue 8 (2024), 32 pp.
"El concepto de publicidad oficial abarca todo lo relacionado con las comunicaciones de las entidades territoriales. No solo se trata del dinero que gastan para publicar en los medios de comunicación con anuncios de su gestión. Incluye el dinero destinado a vallas, pancartas, volantes o cuñas, ha
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The Media Viability Manifesto: A Common Framework for Joint Action
Key Guides
Bonn et al.: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Media Viability Manifesto Initiative (2024), 33 pp.
"The Media Viability Manifesto (MVM) provides an urgently needed common framework for joint action from the global media development community. Its aim is three-pronged: To foster conceptual clarity, to strengthen strategic collaboration between multiple stakeholders, and to align practical implemen
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From Resilience to Recovery: Securing the Future of Ukrainian Media
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2024), 34 pp.
