Worldwide, alternative funding models for investigative journalism are discussed. From whom can you take money - and how do you preserve your journalistic independence? What problems can arise when foundations such as billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations finance investigative research - especially in a country like Hungary? And what is the relationship of journalism to new actors, whom Mark Lee Hunter calls "stakeholder driven media" - a "stunning range of actors who control their own media and use those media to directly affect individuals, communities, organizations and societies." Should journalists even collaborate with Greenpeace or Transparency International?
Mark Lee Hunter, Luk Van Wassenhove, Maria Besiou: Power is Everywhere: How Stakeholder Driven Media Build the Future of Watchdog News
Anne Koch: How Journalists, NGOs Can - & Should – Collaborate
András Pethö: We Had Four Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns. Here Are 10 Tips for Your Newsroom (Global Investigative Journalism Network)
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