Crowdfunding: Case Studies
How Germany’s Journalists Built a Crowdfunding Campaign to Save Russia’s Meduza, GIJN
Crowdfunding Campaigns Give Boost to Independent Czech Media, GIJN
Behind Journalism’s Top Crowdfunding Campaign, GIJN
How the Correspondent crowdfunded $2.5m in 29 days Engaged Journalism
Journalism crowdfunding platform PressPatron named hottest media industry tech start-up by NZ Marketing Magazine New Zealand Herald
Platform uses crowdsourcing to fund journalism where press freedom is weak Columbia Journalism Review
In Italy, Il Giornale is crowdfunding to help fund its reporting from conflict zones
Grants and Fellowships for Journalists
GIJN Africa: Funding and Grants
Prospecting and Cultivation: A Fundraising Primer
Crowdfunding: Essential Reading
Crowdfunding Investigations: Lessons Learned About Harnessing Audience Buy-In from Ireland, Brazil, and Portugal
Crowd-Driven Journalism: Four Groundbreaking Investigative Projects Powered by Public Engagement
How Mother Jones Uses Reader Support to Fund Investigative Journalism
How a US Newspaper Raised $1 Million to Fund Investigations
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.
Republish this article
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Read Next
Fundraising Sustainability
Crowdfunding Investigations: Lessons Learned About Harnessing Audience Buy-In from Ireland, Brazil, and Portugal
GIJN spoke with three newsrooms pioneering models for raising funds directly from their audiences.
GIJC23 Sustainability
Crowd-Driven Journalism: Four Groundbreaking Investigative Projects Powered by Public Engagement
Communities are often considered merely our audience in journalism. But local communities can be engaged to help report impactful stories, provide tips and resources, and even boost the finances of watchdog media around the world.
Sustainability
How Mother Jones Uses Reader Support to Fund Investigative Journalism
Mother Jones is a US outlet known for “smart, fearless journalism.” Monika Bauerlein, its CEO, believes that the kind of investigative journalism they do cannot be funded by traditional commercial means. That’s why it operates as a nonprofit with a heavy focus on reader donations as a revenue stream.
News & Analysis Sustainability
How a US Newspaper Raised $1 Million to Fund Investigations
In this excerpt, the executive editor of a regional US news outlet reveals the tactics that worked — and didn’t work — in their innovative campaign to raise $1 million to fund investigations. Among the key tips that emerged: one-on-one meetings, direct reach-outs, and published “what it cost” boxes are effective, and framing the pitch around benefits for the community, rather than the outlet, causes donors to dig deeper.