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Sept. 18, 2023 / Mark Schapiro

The story of InterNation, (maybe) the world’s first investigative journalism network — “You Americans, you’re so obsessed with those mountains of facts,” was the response I recall during the early days of our efforts to establish an international investigative network, back in the days be...

July 12, 2017 / Ricardo Bilton

With its Take Action newsletter, The Nation is giving readers ways to act on the stories they read — When it comes to politics, the first half of 2017 has given people plenty to protest. And while some have responded to current affairs by becoming more politically active, others, certain they can’t have an effect,...

Nov. 14, 2016 / Joseph Lichterman

After Trump’s win, news organizations see a bump in subscriptions and donations — As election results came in last Tuesday night, ProPublica started seeing a big increase in donations. In the first days after Donald Trump was elected, ProPublica’s donations were “running at about 10 times ...

Sept. 10, 2015 / Laura Hazard Owen

Beacon finds partnerships and matching donations work better than subscriptions and paywalls — When Beacon launched in 2013, its founders saw a lot of promise in subscriptions and paywalls. Readers would pay $5 a month for access to about a dozen stories each week, with about 60 percent of that amount going to one...

Dec. 14, 2009 / Jim Barnett

Are news nonprofits doomed to reliance on big gifts? A study in fundraising — and sustainability — I’ve been studying journalism nonprofits one way or another for about five years now, and I confess that in all that time, I’ve looked at their business models really as being slightly different iterations of the sam...

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Primary author: Mark Coddington. Main text last updated: September 26, 2013.

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