{"id":130,"date":"2015-07-04T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T15:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2015-07-04T15:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T15:53:24","slug":"recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/recommended-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

These\u00a0resources were suggested by some of the participants for perusal prior to the meeting. The intent was to help spark or contextualize ideas and observations for the discussion.<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/span>
\n We highly recommend taking a look at these top two:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A Field of Toddlers: Nonprofit News Sites<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Written by Ruth McCambridge, created Jan. 2. 2015<\/span>
\n Nonprofit Quarterly, April 23, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Note<\/u>: This provides a good overview of the problems of growing nonprofit news organizations (which also apply to the independent news sector) and the complexity of different approaches to solving the problem of scaling up to sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\n

Collective Impact<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>By John Krania & Mark Kramer<\/span>
\n Stanford Social Innovation Review Series, Winter 2011<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/span>
\n Note<\/u>: <\/strong>It’s somewhat academic, but it addresses the topics of organizing and funding for large-scale impact in an original fashion. It includes some out-of-the-box thinking that some of you can use.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a list of some other suggested readings from participants.<\/strong><\/span>
\n
\n<\/strong>Untold Stories<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>A Survey of Freelance Investigative Reporters, released Feb. 7, 2015<\/span>
\n Project Word, a project of Investigative Reporters and Editors<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/span>
\n From Persona to Payment: A Status Report on the News Ecosystem and a Challenge to Create the Next One<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\n By Bill Densmore, Fellow, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, March 12, 2015 (version 15 of a draft)<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\n Building One Independent Sector<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>By Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, The Media Consortium<\/span>
\n April 2015<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\n The Personal News Cycle: A Focus on African American and Hispanic News Consumers<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>By the Media Insight Project \u2013 an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research<\/span>
\n September 16, 2014<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\n The Local News Lab<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Experiments in Journalism Sustainability<\/span>
\n (On April 23, 2015, lead item on blog was \u201c5 Ideas to Steal from ProPublica: For News Organizations of Any Size\u201d by Molly de Aguiar)<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/span>
\n The Importance of Protecting Freelancers<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>By Alexis Sobel Fitts, Jan\/Feb 2015<\/span>
\n Columbia Journalism Review<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/span>
\n The Business Model That Will \u2018Save\u2019 Journalism<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>By Shane Snow<\/span>
\n November 5, 2014<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/span>
\n Public Policy and Funding the News<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>By Geoffrey Cowan and David Westphal<\/span>
\n A Project of the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy<\/span>
\n January 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

Will The Last Reporter Turn Off The Lights?<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>By Robert McChesney and Victor Pickard<\/span><\/p>\n

SuBMoJour – Sustainable Business Models for Journalism<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\n A joint project with the University of Tampere, USC Annenberg and Waseda University<\/span>
\n October 31, 2012<\/span>
\n
\n<\/strong>The Wired City<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\n Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age<\/span>
\n By Dan Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

The New Medicis Funding Journalism<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>By Jack Schafer, Feb. 12, 2014<\/span>
\n Reuters, Analysis & Opinion<\/span>
\n \u00a0<\/span>
\n Is There Inspiration In Your Media Diet?<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>A TEDx Talk by Sarah van Gelder<\/span>
\n Posted Feb. 10, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These\u00a0resources were suggested by some of the participants for perusal prior to the meeting. The intent was to help spark or contextualize ideas and observations for the discussion. \u00a0 We highly recommend taking a look at these top two: A Field of Toddlers: Nonprofit News Sites Written by Ruth McCambridge, created Jan. 2. 2015 Nonprofit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/pocantico\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}