Lessons for starting news foundations

2012-02-27

The Knight Digital Media Center gives news startups some basic lessons on business plans after the Chicago News Cooperation, a two-year-old nonprofit news site, announced that it is suspending its contributions to the Midwest pages of the New York Times.

LOS ANGELES - The Chicago News Cooperation, a two-year-old nonprofit news site, has announced that it is suspending its contributions to the Midwest pages of the New York Times and its website as of February 26 to reevaluate its business model and determine "if there is a more sustainable path to the future".

The announcement prompted the Knight Digital Media Center to emphasize that for starting news foundations a focus on revenue is equally, if not more, important as spending and content. The Media Center formulated three lessons for news startups to consider lest they go down the same path as the Chicago News Coop.

The full article can be found here on the Knight Digital Media Center website.

World’s First Rating of Right to Information: 89 Countries

2011-09-28

On International Right to Know Day, two leading human rights organisations, Access Info Europe (Spain) and the Centre for Law and Democracy (Canada), are launching the first detailed analysis of the legal framework for the right to information (RTI) in 89 countries around the world.

IRPI Receives the Honorary Title for Freedom of Expression – Difference Day 2025

2025-04-30

BRUSSELS - IRPI has been awarded the Honorary Title for Freedom of Expression as part of Difference Day 2025, organized by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), under the patronage of UNESCO.

Information Needs of Communities

2012-03-09

While the broadband age is enabling an information and communications renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical information about local issues. This report, delivered by the American FCC (Federal Communications Commission) in 2011, makes recommendations on how the information needs of communities can be met in a broadband world.