Commercial Revenue: Essential Reading
Commercial income takes many forms and can either provide additional funds for nonprofit journalism organizations or even full funding. These include advertising and subscription, among others:
Google News Initiative and INN release Nonprofit News Guide to Earned Revenue A comprehensive “playbook” showing nonprofit newsrooms how to grow revenue from display advertising, event sponsorships, sponsored content, and other earned revenue sources.
How to Evaluate Commercial Revenue as a Sustainability Strategy for Investigative Media Organizations, by Ross Settles, adjunct professor focused on digital media and entrepreneurship at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of Hong Kong University.
A Free Entrepreneurial Journalism Teaching and Learning Toolkit (See description by Jeremy Caplan, Director of Education, Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, City University of New York.)
New ways for publishers to capture digital revenue
Judgement day for Journalism: Will digital news startups be ready to face the challenge?
Reader Revenue Kit A resource with articles on a variety of topics, maintained by the American Press Institute.
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