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Articles tagged membership (72)

For public radio stations, “membership” mostly means “money”

Shan WangMarch 23, 2018

On the Pactio platform, loyal readers follow and fund their favorite individual beat reporters

“We work in the membership model more than the subscription model, in that the primary motivation for people to support a journalist on Pactio is the fact that they want your reporting to exist in the first place.”

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 13, 2018

Last blog standing, “last guy dancing”: How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20

“I am like a vaudevillian. I’m the last guy dancing on the stage, by myself, and everyone else has moved on to movies and television.”

A new report offers a primer (and a reality check) on the news membership model

Nicholas QuahJanuary 16, 2018

Who needs video? Slate is pivoting to audio, and making real money doing it

Plus: WBEZ tries to turn a podcast into a franchise, Science Friday joins WNYC Studios, and Gimlet opens up the HBO playbook.

Shan WangDecember 19, 2017

To make fundraising appeals more appealing, Mother Jones turns them into stories readers want to read

“Conventional fundraising wisdom is that you’ve got a couple of seconds to reach people and get them to do what you want them to do, and here we are writing 2,500-word appeals.”

Shan WangDecember 4, 2017

Want to write for Publish.org? Every step of the process — from pitching to edits to payment — will be open

“Our big premise is, we’re trying to be an open news desk for the internet. At the end of the day, we’re just trying to fuel a healthier, more open ecosystem of journalism.”

Christine SchmidtNovember 20, 2017

Three years in, Discourse Media looks to membership to power its national expansion

The Canadian news industry “has been in a long, slow, painful decline, and people are ready for solutions and to see something new.”

Christine SchmidtNovember 17, 2017

Asking members to support its journalism (no prizes, no swag), The Guardian raises more reader revenue than ad dollars

The Guardian revamped its ask and its membership offerings — moving from 12,000 members in the beginning of 2016 to 300,000 today.

Sherwin ChuaNovember 17, 2017

Beating the 404 death knell: Singapore news startups struggle to cover costs and find their footing

Political news reporting doesn’t seem to be holding up well as a business in the city-state. And it’s even harder when you’re seen as “alternative” media.

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