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News & Analysis Press Freedom Sustainability

Amid a Press Crackdown in Myanmar, One News Site Survives on Reader Revenue

by Raksha Kumar • December 6, 2021

Even after the coup in Myanmar, Frontier Myanmar has continued reporting on socio-economic issues. Publishing deeply reported pieces has made them popular among their readers. However, the entire website is now behind a paywall and available only to paying members — rates that are high for an average news consumer within a country where roughly 37% of the people live below the poverty line.

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5 Journalism Tips from Edwy Plenel

After the opening, plenary session of GIJC21, Mediapart editor and French journalist icon Edwy Plenel spoke with GIJN’s French editor, Marthe Rubio, to offer five, high-level tips for running a successful investigative news outlet.

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News & Analysis Sustainability

How a US Newspaper Raised $1 Million to Fund Investigations

by Autumn Phillips • October 12, 2021

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.

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News & Analysis Sustainability

How Mission-Driven News Sites Are Betting on Reader Revenue in Latin America

by Laura Oliver • August 31, 2021

For digital-first news outlets in Latin America, lessons learned from reader-funding experiments are being transformed into highly tailored membership programs that offer a chance at a more sustainable future. Independent, mission-driven or subject-specific news sites, in particular, are leading the way, converting close relationships with audiences into funding through editorially-linked, labor-intensive initiatives.

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Sustainability

GIJN Selects Three Media Organizations for Watchdog Capacity-Building

by GIJN Staff • July 26, 2021

The Global Investigative Journalism Network is delighted to announce the selection of three Asian media organizations as participants in our new Investigative Journalism Assessment Program (IJ-MAP): The Caravan magazine in India, the KBR radio network in Indonesia; and the nonprofit Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.

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News & Analysis

What Governments Can Do to Preserve the Press: A New Deal for Journalism

by Sameer Padania, Emma Goodman, Louise Anglès-d'Auriac, Camille Grenier, Thibaut Bruttin, and Iris de Villars • July 1, 2021

A recent report published by the Forum on Information & Democracy’s Working Group on the Sustainability of Journalism says the journalism industry is experiencing a “potential extinction event” as the certainties (chiefly the advertising-supported model) under which journalism operated for 40 to 50 years continues to fall away.

News & Analysis

From Traditional Journalism to Sustainable Journalism

by Lars Tallert • May 13, 2021

In this chapter for a new book on the role of civil society and journalism in sub-Saharan Africa, the head of policy for Sweden’s Fojo Media Institute argues that sustainable societies require a kind of journalism that addresses the sustainability challenges facing the planet.

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