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IJNet has recently launched its Media Entrepreneurship Toolkit to help journalists make their own projects financially sustainable. My contribution was an introduction to some of the basics of accounting and budgeting. Some of the key points to keep in mind: There are some free online budgeting and accounting software packages that can organize your financial […]
Read More »Tina Kaiser. Photo by Gisela Gürtler News organizations have been losing credibility for years, and the reasons are many. Too often, we journalists have been arrogant and said, in effect, Trust us, we know what we’re doing. But today, journalism is under attack, and we have to explain why people should trust us. Versión en […]
Read More »This post is part of a study that identifies 20 media organizations from 16 countries and four regions –Eastern and Central Europe, Western Europe, Latin America, and the United States– that have developed sustainable business models for high-quality journalism. This list is by no means exclusive. The examples were chosen to present a variety […]
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Lies have a life of their own, and people want to believe them, especially when they are about people they don’t like, “the other”. Facts don’t sway people. As Laura Hazard Owen recently reported in Nieman Lab, three leading fact-checking organizations have said their work needs to go beyond simply calling out the lies of […]
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Between fines and recovered funds, journalists get results Lately a couple of us here at the University of Navarra have been looking for models of high-quality journalism that are sustainable. As it turns out, many of the best news organizations that are thriving are doing investigative journalism. Readers like this type of journalism, which holds […]
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Many of the right-wing or nationalist leaders of Eastern and Central Europe have been winning votes by attacking the political correctness of the European Union and its allies. And they have chosen as their whipping boy George Soros, the billionaire and philanthropist whose Open Society Foundations have been funding programs that promote Western democratic values […]
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Reflections on several decades of managing news publications A student in a media management course had to interview a media professional for his final research project. I agreed to be his subject, and in the course of an hour, he got me to talk about my philosophy of management in the digital era. Reading over […]
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