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March 12, 2021 Unfortunately, a good idea plus passion are not the only ingredients in building a long-term, sustainable business.
This article and accompanying presentation, published by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), explore some of the questions media entrepreneurs should ask themselves when launching a startup or when transitioning from non-profit to for-profit status. In particular, the author looks at some of the basic truths that, in MDIF s experience, need to be considered around issues such as product, finance, positioning, audience, and access to markets. As stated in the article, Media is a business, and just like any business, the fundamental skills one needs remain pretty much the same - these range from the reason you became an entrepreneur to critically analyzing your market to knowing your audience and knowing how to make the business sustainable. The best way to arrive at these fundamental truths is to not have a set
The GroundTruth Project launches new global service program, Report for the World
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Launching with two newsroom partners in Nigeria and India, Report for the World opens the application window for six local journalists.
“The absence of local news both here in the U.S. and in under-covered corners of the world is a crisis for democracy,” said Charles Sennott, GroundTruth CEO and editor-in-chief. BOSTON (PRWEB) February 18, 2021
The GroundTruth Project announced today the launch of Report for the World, its newest service program, and issued a call for applications for local journalists to serve communities in Nigeria and India.
Publication Date October 1, 2020 Finding effective, sustainable solutions to the intractable problem of securing the long-term viability of media in development contexts is a formidable challenge.
Protecting Independent Media for Effective Development (PRIMED) is a 3-year programme to support the provision of public interest media in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone. Launched in October 2020, it is being implemented by a consortium of media development organisations led by BBC Media Action. The programme s overall objective is to address the challenges to public interest media at both outlet and environment level. It will do this by building the resilience of media to political and economic pressures that are undermining viability and by supporting the development of information ecosystems that enable a better flow of trusted public interest media content. The three countries have been chosen because they have very different media environments,