A study found many Google News Initiative projects in Middle East and Africa struggle to become more than makeshift versions of the original idea.
audience engagement
Mastering the Rollout: Increasing the Impact of Your Investigative Story
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GIJN social media editor Holly Pate looked into best practices for increasing impact and audience engagement of investigative stories, gathering real-life examples from journalism sites around the world.
Sustainability
10 Tips for Founding a Successful Investigative Startup
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Veteran Mexican journalist Alejandra Xanic shares the lessons she learned in setting up an investigative nonprofit, from how to move beyond prioritizing survival to the importance of administrative support.
Sustainability
How Can We Build a New Future for Journalism That Belongs to All of Us?
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Because of growing threats to democracy, and a recent series of ever more extreme societal and planetary crises, funders now see more clearly the pivotal, central role that independent public interest media play in keeping our societies and economies open. And what’s even more encouraging is to see this positive talk backed up with concrete measures and actions.
Press Freedom
Nepal Center Marks 25 Years Amid Growing Crisis for Democracy
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With democracy and press freedom under assault worldwide, Nepali Times publisher Kunda Dixit calls for greater investment in watchdog sites like the Centre for Investigative Journalism – Nepal.
Sustainability
How Independent Journalism Is Filling Gaps in the European Media Landscape
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A new generation of intrepid news organizations is rising across Europe – one that is strongly committed to serving its audience and democracy alike through public interest journalism. A new report by Netzwerk Recherche outlines this emerging innovative media scene and takes a closer look at how this New Sector reclaims journalistic terrain that traditional media has abandoned.
News & Analysis
‘We Were Born Digital’: Premesh Chandran on the Success of Malaysiakini
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Malaysiakini gained a global reputation by remaining independent while publishing in a restrictive media atmosphere. After 22 years at the helm, co-founder Premesh Chandran speaks about creating a quadrilingual website that receives millions of unique pageviews a day, and about helping to change the media conversation in Malaysia.
Sustainability
How Germany’s Journalists Built a Crowdfunding Campaign to Save Russia’s Meduza
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Meduza, one of Russia’s last remaining independent news sites, lost 30,000 donors after the government cut off subscriber payments from the country due to unflinching coverage of the war. In less than a week, two German reporters organized a crowdfunding campaign to replace those funds to try to save Meduza.
News & Analysis
Saving Journalism, Part One: Finding the Right Funding
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In this excerpt from Anya Schiffrin’s latest report on the state of sustainability of journalism, the author discusses how government funding can throw the profession a lifeline in an era where philanthropic efforts to support the press are struggling and Big Tech is increasingly seen as a competitor instead of a platform for news organizations.
Press Freedom
‘Illuminate the Darkness’: Creating an Independent News Site in Crisis-Hit Venezuela
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The “dream” of Efecto Cocuyo began mid-2014, initially a discussion in cafes with colleagues and friends Laura Weffer and Josefina Ruggiero, as well as three young journalists. An incubator programme helped the team design an operational and business model and in January 2015 Efecto Cocuyo was born, launching first on Twitter and gaining 18,000 followers in its first week. At the time of writing, it had more than 724,000.
News & Analysis
Saving Journalism, Part Two: In Africa, A Dearth of Support Amid the Pandemic
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In this second excerpt from a report on the state of sustainability of journalism, the author discusses the African press, how the coronavirus pandemic impacted reporting in the region, and the proposals to ensure the media not only survives, but thrives, in the future.