Nonprofit journalism – International Symposium on Online Journalism

Business Models | April 15, 2023

Build local news sustainability through collaboration and nonprofit funding, ISOJ panel tells crowd

By Gabrielle Beacken

View video of panel here. Small for-profit and nonprofit newsrooms around the country are searching for ways to build a sustainable business model, while still delivering high impact journalism to their surrounding communities. Exploring the ways in which newsrooms can engage in these sustainability efforts was discussed during ISOJ’s April 15 panel “The local news … Read More

Black woman speaks at the podium while 4 panelists listen

ISOJ2022 | April 5, 2022

Nonprofit news initiatives in the United States seek to serve underserved populations, strengthen local journalism and create jobs for journalists

By César López Linares

The nonprofit model applied to journalism has flourished in recent years in the United States. There are already several digital media that have emerged under this paradigm that are focusing on under-served populations, reinforcing the local news ecosystem and creating jobs for journalists, while striving to consolidate sustainable business models. In the opening panel of … Read More

ISOJ2022 | March 17, 2022

Nonprofit online journalism executives explain how sector has grown in size and strength over recent years

By Teresa Mioli

The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization often studied and replicated by others around the world, has grown to 80 employees and raised $100 million since it launched in 2009. While the viability and sustainability of nonprofit news were once questioned, it’s a business model maturing in the U.S. and many others are joining the Tribune’s … Read More

Mandy Jenkins, general manager, The Compass Experiment (partnership Google-McClatchy); Alison Go, chief strategy officer, Chalkbeat; Sara Lomax-Reese, CEO, WURD Radio; Fraser Nelson, vice president of business innovation, Salt Lake Tribune; Chris Sopher, co-founder and CEO, WhereBy.us; Jennifer Preston, vice-president of journalism, Knight Foundation, and chair of the session.

Business Models | July 21, 2020

No single silver bullet for local news: legacy and digital newsrooms experiment with different editorial and business strategies to make sure nothing gets unreported

By Júlio Lubianco

For the first time in its 21-year-history, the International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ) was held online only in 2020. To watch this panel, click here. To watch other panels, click here. There’s no single model for local news organizations to survive, so they must spend some of their efforts experimenting editorially and financially to find … Read More

Accountability | April 20, 2018

Ibero-American journalists innovate in content production by using new technologies and seek to create community

By Paola Nalvarte and César López Linares

The Iberian American Digital Journalism Colloquium, which emerged over the years as an informal post-ISOJ (International Symposium of Online Journalism) conversation among journalists from Latin America, Spain and Portugal attending the symposium, convened an interesting group of innovative journalists for its eleventh edition. Those in attendance shared their experiences and projects at the School of … Read More

Business Models | April 28, 2017

Latin American and Spanish news sites experiment to reach audience and finance quality journalism

By Paola Nalvarte

(*)For other coverage of the 10th Ibero American Colloquium for Digital Journalism, please see below. In a global context in which the demand for traditional newspapers decreases and in which the use of information and communication technologies grows, journalists are forced to develop ingenious ways in which to deliver their products. Especially in the last … Read More

Business Models | April 27, 2017

News startups and new business models innovate in search for sustainability

By Mariana Muñoz

Watch video of the news startups panel discussion at ISOJ 2017. To close the 18th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), journalists and researchers put news startups and sustainability at center stage. Aron Pilhofer, James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation at Temple University, moderated the panel, “News startups and new business models: Innovation in … Read More

Featured | April 15, 2016

Success of nonprofit news organizations rests on investing in storytelling, says ISOJ panel

By Alessandra Monnerat

Collaboration and diversity — heard throughout the first day of the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) — are key to the business model for nonprofit news organizations, which can lead to ground-breaking coverage like The Panama Papers, said panelists on Friday, April 15. Peter Bale, CEO of the Center for Public Integrity, offered the … Read More

Keynote | March 29, 2016

Leaders of five news organizations will discuss nonprofit journalism in the United States

By Ian Tennant

Philadelphia’s two daily newspapers made news earlier this year by heading down the path to becoming nonprofit operations, a business model very familiar to leaders of five top nonprofit journalism news outlets who will gather Friday, April 15, at the 2016 International Symposium on Online Journalism. The special keynote panel will be chaired by Emily … Read More

Nonprofit journalism | April 3, 2011

Texas Tribune’s John Thornton on Nonprofit Business Model

By Joe Holloway