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Censorship

Meet the Startup Fighting for the Future of Russian Media

By Howard Amos | April 2, 2018

The Bell illustrates a growing trend in which Russian journalists and media managers are finding ways of building news organizations that are not financially dependent on rich businessmen vulnerable to Kremlin pressure.

archiving

What a Failed Media Startup Can Teach Us About Involving Readers in Reporting

By Ashley Renders | August 8, 2018

Canada’s OpenFile had an elegant concept. They would ask readers to tell them what they thought was important and make editorial decisions around that. But the platform’s initial success couldn’t be sustained as it struggled to make money and maintain the flow of reader-suggested stories. Here’s what the OpenFile journalists learned about community journalism along the way.

Tools & Techniques

10 Tips for Creating a Successful Membership Organization

By Tim Griggs | March 26, 2019

There are no silver bullets, no hard-and-fast rules, no magic answers to running a membership-driven news organization. It takes a lot of effort, coordination and putting members at the core of everything. Media consultant Tim Griggs shares 10 essential ingredients for making it work.

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A Global Assault on Nonprofits

By Douglas Rutzen | November 30, 2015

In an era of increasing hostility to independent media, one of the bright spots is the rapid expansion of journalism nonprofits around the world — training, promoting, and reporting on stories that otherwise would never see the light of day. But a dangerous trend now threatens the progress our colleagues have made on press freedom and watchdog reporting: a crackdown on nonprofit organizations. Restrictions on international funding account for more than a third of the measures since 2012. With that in mind, we are pleased to reprint this important story from the Journal of Democracy, detailing the global scope of the backlash.

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Investigative Journalism & Foreign Aid: A Huge Return on Investment

By David E. Kaplan and Drew Sullivan | March 17, 2016

It’s not unusual for investigative reporting to lead to huge fines. Exposés of foreign bribery, money laundering, and tax evasion have led to billions of dollars recovered by governments worldwide. What is shocking about these numbers is how they compare to the paucity of foreign aid to investigative journalists where it is most needed — in developing and transitioning countries.

How They Did It

Journalists Collaborate in Oregon on Mountain of Data on High School Concussions

By Tara George | July 31, 2018

John Schrag had known for a while about an unexamined pool of data that could shed new light on the issue of concussions in high school sports. The executive editor of a newspaper in Oregon, his first instincts were to keep the story in-house and garner all the glory, but he quickly realized the only way the story would see the light of day was through collaboration.

audience development

Lessons on Solving the Media Membership Puzzle

By Emily Goligoski | August 21, 2017

Membership programs are in a state of rapid evolution as more organizations see them as an imperative way to diversify revenue. The Membership Puzzle Project, a public research project into membership models, spoke to publishers around the world who have membership programs to find out what they have learned.

Direkt36

We Had Four Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns. Here Are 10 Tips for Your Newsroom

By András Pethő | April 23, 2018

Raising money for your news organization via crowdfunding is difficult and can be stressful. Hungary’s Direkt36, which has run four successful crowdfunding campaigns so far, offers 10 tips from their experience to help you plan a good campaign. A GIJN original.

crowdfunding

Can Crowdfunding Save Romania’s Independent Media?

By Oscar Stanciulescu and Marian Popovici | July 23, 2018

The increasing lack of credibility and growing political meddling in Romanian mainstream media in recent years has resulted in many journalists leaving these outlets and starting their own independent sites. Some of these initiatives support themselves by relying on crowdfunding. But is it viable in the long term?

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New Models: How Academics, Nonprofit News and Government are Collaborating

By Peter W. Klein | November 13, 2018

The Global Reporting Centre has launched an ambitious project investigating labor abuse, environmental impact and corruption in global commerce. Here’s the Centre’s Peter W Klein on how Hidden Costs will bring together award-winning journalists, scholars and major media organizations — including the New York Times, PBS Frontline, the Toronto Star, Smithsonian Channel, NBC News, DigitalGlobe and Google News Labs — to undertake investigative-reporting projects.

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