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After the launch of Guardian Europe, one-time donations from European readers increased by 45%.
In response to the volume and quality of applications, Press Forward doubled the funding and number of grantees for this open call.
“We’ve realized that we can’t do it all, and have made the decision to no longer have a staffed newsroom in Wichita.”
The Kansas City Beacon seemed to be a nonprofit news success story. So what’s going wrong in Wichita?
“What we’re trying to solve for is not necessarily a business model problem. We’re trying to solve for an ownership incentive problem.”
“It feels more like a partner and a support than Zetland coming to the Finnish market.”
“We don’t know whether or how this nonprofit and its fund will operate, and likely won’t for some months (nonprofit governance is many things, but fast is not one of them).”
“We would like to see at least 25% of our P&L look different in a couple of years than it does now…I don’t think any media company right now can just be banking on subscriptions to save the day.”