This document discusses emerging opportunities and challenges in digital journalism. It outlines new tools for visual storytelling, data journalism, and civic engagement. However, traditional media still struggles with limited resources for complex stories. The document then explores various funding models for investigative journalism, including grants, crowd funding, media pre-sales and syndication, paid content through subscriptions and e-publications, and advertising. While digital tools provide new methods, funding quality journalism remains a challenge that requires understanding multiple revenue streams and technologies.

1. Journalism in the Digital World
– presented to CIJ – Nepal
8 November 2013
Kathmandu, Nepal

2. “It is the best of times…
 Visual storytelling
 Data journalism
 Civic engagement

3. “Snowfall” – New York Times
Visual Storytelling

4. “Water: Asia’s Next Challenge” – The Asia
Society
Visual Storytelling

5. Not everyone is the New York Times.
 Journalism and technology collaborations:
 New Tools
+ Timeline.js
+ Meograph
+ Piktochart.com
+ Ushahidi
+ ScrollKit.com

6. “Rede de Escandalos” – Veja, Sao Paolo
Data Journalism

7. “Undi.info” – Malaysiakini.com
Data Journalism

8. Where’s the data? What tools?
 Online tools
- The Data Journalism Handbook
(www.datajournalismhandbook.org)
 Data Sources:
+ Government Sources (Census, Budget, Social
Services)
+ NGO Data Sets (UN, World Bank)
+ Corporate Sources (Annual Reports)
+ Create your own data (citizen contributed)

9. NREG – SwaraNet.org/MojoLab
Data Collection

10. MP’s Expenses – The Guardian
Civic Engagement

11. IPaidABribe.com – Janaagraha, Bangalore
Civic Engagement

12. “It is the best of times…
 New digital tools and methods of investigation and
storytelling
 Digital tools find stories in the data
 Digital requires:
- Technology
- Design
- Engaged audiences
BUT…

13. “It is also the worst of times…
 Traditional media struggling, limited resources for
complex stories
 Competition for foundation grants and fellowships
increasing
 Digital media mostly focused on “breaking news” and
opinion

14. How do we fund investigative journalism?
Funding
• Grants
• Crowd Funded
• Syndication
Revenues
• Advertising
Publication • Subscriptions
• Purchase –
e*publications

15. Grants – Investigative Journalism Centres
Philippine Center for
Investigative Journalism
ThaiPublica

16. Media Pre-sale – Syndication
 All media companies want good stories
 But may not be able to fund them alone
 Create networks of media to distribute media for a fee

17. Media Pre-sale – Syndication

18. Crowdfunding
KickStarter

19. Crowdfunding – a global phenomena
Catarse.me Brazil
M-Changa - Kenya
ZecZec.com - Taiwan
Wishberry - India

20. Paid Content
 Many paid content models emerging, but…
 …requirements are not easy to meet:
- online payments infrastructure (like paypal, alipay)
- or hybrid offline payment, online fulfillment model
- online curation and recommendation engines
- the major platforms limited to text and illustration
 Mobile platforms are helping to solve some problems

21. Subscription Platforms – The New Breed
ByLiner.com

22. Subscription Platforms – The Old Guard
the Paris Review

23. Purchasing Platforms – e*Publishing

24. Purchasing Platforms – The e*Book Platforms
-
Over 5 million sold
Price 99¢ to $2.99
Limited to text narrative
Limited languages

25. What about advertising?
 Growing market, but model requires
- Context
- Page views
 Advertising doesn’t yet provide a premium for
engagement
 Video may create a model, but still a small part of the
global advertising mix

26. It is both the best and worst of times.
 New tools to aid the investigation
 New techniques to tell the story and engage the
audience
 Funding is a challenge
+ Matching costs with potential revenues
+ Managing multiple revenue streams
+ Understanding and implementing the technology

27. Thank you
Questions?