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Collaborative Sustainability Guide: How to Earn Revenue to Grow and Thrive
Key Guidance
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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Local Media Survival Guide 2022: How Journalism is Innovating to Find Sustainable Ways to Serve Local Communities Around the World and Fight Against Misinformation
Top Insights
Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2021), 81 pp.
"This report is meant to share the experiences and lessons of local media practitioners globally, and to build a community for networking and support. It’s about telling their story in their own voice – and helping all involved learn from one another. By talking to both new digital start-ups and
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Key Editorial and Business Strategies: A Case Study of Six Independent Community Newspapers
Top Insights
Grahamstown: Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (2006), 122 pp.
"From all that has come before it should be all too clear that starting up and developing a small independent community newspaper takes considerable tenacity. There is a general perception in this sector that the value of these publications often goes unacknowledged. Shirley Govender of the Southern
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Internet Radio and Podcasts as Alternative to the Public Service and Commercial Mainstream Media in Poland: The Cases of Radio Nowy Swiat, Radio 357, and Raport O Stanie Swiata
Profesional de la Información, volume 31, issue 5: e310506 (2022), 13 pp.
"The aim of this article is to show to what extent alternative audio media can be built online, not only by amateurs but also as a combination of the energy and involvement of professional journalists and the community of listeners who are ready to support them [...] The podcast Raport o stanie swia
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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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"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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Report: Leveraging Solutions Journalism for Revenue Growth
Solutions Journalism Network (2021), 11 pp.
"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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Startup Guide
Beverly Hills, CA: Institute for Nonprofit News (2020)
"The Startup Guide is our attempt to curate the information and tools we think are essential to launch an independent newsroom and leading a successful enterprise well beyond startup. The areas of focus include business planning, audience development, revenue generation and nonprofit management. All
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Financial Sustainability of Community Radio Stations: A ZACRAS Community Radio Handbook
Key Guidance
"Whereas the earlier ZACRAS manuals already covered issues of social and organisational sustainability, this manual addresses the issue of financial sustainability. These three aspects: social, organisational and financial sustainability e are described and explained in the following chapter. This f
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Can Foundations Solve the Journalism Crisis?
Journalism, volume 19, issue 8 (2017), pp. 1059-1077
"In the context of the ongoing financial crisis in U.S. professional journalism, philanthropic foundation-supported nonprofits are increasingly proposed as a solution to the under-provision of civic-oriented news production. Drawing on an analysis of the social composition of boards of directors and
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Beyond Clickbait and Commerce: The Ethics, Possibilities and Challenges of Not-For-Profit Media
Ethical Space: the International Journal of Communication Ethics, volume 13, issue 2-3 (2016), pp. 3-109
Gaining Ground: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
Miami: Knight Foundation (2015), 24 pp.
"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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Emerging News Non-Profits: A Case Study for Rebuilding Community Trust?
Journalism, volume 15, issue 8 (2014), pp. 968-986
"A new news disseminator has emerged to revitalize the profession of information gathering – the non-profit news organization. Adopting a framework of community trust, this article begins a scholarly response to the questions: Who are these non-profit journalists and what do they aim to accomplish
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Finding a Foothold: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
Miami: Knight Foundation (2013), 52 pp.
Seeking Sustainability: A Nonprofit News Roundtable. Summary & Report
Austin: Knight Foundation (2010), 81 pp.
A Revenue Based Methodology for the Classification and Comparison of Broadcasting Systems
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2007), 88 pp.
"This book offers a methodology for the classification and comparison of broadcasting systems, both for positive and normative analyses. It is based on the assumption that the revenue structures of broadcasters determine the incentives for the broadcasters' staffs, and that these incentives in tur
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Handbuch Medien: Offene Kanäle
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (1997), 191 pp.
"Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Arbeit Offener Kanäle in Deutschland. Es gibt Basisinformationen über die Organisation der Sender und informiert über bereits realisierte Projekte. Die Offenen Kanäle spielen demnach besonders in den Bereichen medienpädagogische Arbeit, politische Bildung un
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