Sustainability: Perspective – Essential Reading
A number of major reports have provided a top-level view on the drive to create institutions that will support investigative journalism. Here are some of the key ones:
Starting a Nonprofit News Organization, by the Institute for Nonprofit News
Six Strategies for Sustainable Journalism
DW Academy Media Viability Handbook
Fighting For Survival: New Report on Media Startups in the Global South
Publishing for Peanuts: Innovation and the Journalism Start-Up
How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability: A Knight Study
Funding the News: Foundations and Nonprofit Media
Venture-backed News Startups and the Field of Journalism
A journalism innovation and entrepreneurship reading list
The Impact of Charity and Tax Law/Regulation on Not-for-Profit News Organizations
Sustainability: A Survival Guide for Nonprofit Investigative Groups
Global Investigative Journalism: Strategies for Support
The Membership Puzzle partnered with Luminate and Democracy Fund to launch The Membership in News Fund to run through May 2020. The $700,000 fund is designed to support innovative membership models. More details on applying are here. No set deadline. (Spanish)
Better News is a project of the American Press Institute and the Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to address issues of sustainability.
European Federation of Journalists study on new business models to promote journalism
How Independent Journalism Is Filling Gaps in the European Media Landscape
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