The Journalism Value Loop

The Loop is a Journalism Value Project podcast, brought to you by Reference, a self-organized network of 26 European independent news outlets, hosted by Arena for Journalism. We are interviewing the members of this network about key challenges for them, ranging from funding and business models, to community engagement and organizational structures, as we explore what success and sustainability looks like for European independent media today. In this episode, we talk to Inside Story’s founder and publisher, Dimitris Xenakis. Inside Story is an investigative journalism project in Greece. We talked about their subscription model and how they are engaging their community by letting them into the journalistic process. The readers can be part of the team and can pitch stories and discuss how they are conducted.

The Loop is a Journalism Value Project podcast, brought to you by Reference, a self-organized network of 26 European independent news outlets, hosted by Arena for Journalism. We are interviewing the members of this network about key challenges for them, ranging from funding and business models, to community engagement and organizational structures, as we explore what success and sustainability looks like for European independent media today. In this episode, we talk to David Cabo and Eva Belmonte, co-directors of Civio, a Spanish data journalism project that shines a light on public entities, This non-profit outlet is using technology as an important tool to scrutinize public policies, contracts and funds. We will be looking into how Civio is using technology in their marketing strategy, and how an automated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has helped them with memberships.

The Loop is a Journalism Value Project podcast, brought to you by Reference, a self-organized network of 26 European independent news outlets, hosted by Arena for Journalism. We are interviewing the members of this network about key challenges for them, ranging from funding and business models, to community engagement and organizational structures, as we explore what success and sustainability looks like for European independent media today. In this episode we talk to Ximena Villagrán, Chief Operating Officer of Maldita, about HR management in an ever-growing organization. Maldita is a Spanish outlet that grew from a fact-checking Twitter account into a big media outlet that covers many areas. It fights disinformation through journalism, technology, education and new narratives.

The Loop is a Journalism Value project podcast, brought to you by Reference. We are interviewing the members of this network about key challenges for them, ranging from funding and business models, to community engagement and organizational structures, as we explore what success and sustainability looks like for European independent media today. On today’s episode we will be talking to Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro, the co-founder of Fumaça, an investigative journalism newsroom that publishes narrative podcasts. We will explore questions like how radical transparency, as well as horizontal decision making is possible in a newsroom, and how these concepts impact growth and sustainability.

The Loop is a Journalism Value project podcast, brought to you by Reference. We are interviewing the members of this network about key challenges for them, ranging from funding and business models, to community engagement and organizational structures, as we explore what success and sustainability looks like for European independent media today. On today’s episode we will be talking to Elisabeta Tola, the co-founder and president of Facta, an Italian nonprofit center applying the scientific method to investigative and data journalism. We will explore how investigative journalism can benefit from the scientific methods, about product thinking in journalism, about community building, and also about the benefits and disadvantages of not having a media outlet, but publishing in more established media outlets instead.