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    Download a PDF and topline results: The ethical terrain of nonprofit journalism

    For printing and offline viewing, a PDF of the report and the topline results for the nonprofit news outlets, commercial news outlets, and funders are available [...]

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    Methodology for our survey of media and funders

    The surveys of foundations and media organizations do not represent of all media-funding foundations, nonprofit media organizations or commercial news outlets in the United States. [...]

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    Essays on the ethics of funders and nonprofit media

    Surveys can be a valuable research tool because they can offer some sense of scale. But they do not allow respondents to articulate their ideas [...]

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    Check out funders and maintain editorial firewall

    This essay is part of “Charting new ground: The ethical terrain of nonprofit journalism,” API research exploring the philanthropic funding of journalism. Read the other [...]

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    A look at the landscape of nonprofit journalism

    Although not all foundations or news organizations in the United States were surveyed, the data enhance our understanding of the world of nonprofit journalism in [...]

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    Create clear rules to avoid obvious dangers

    This essay is part of “Charting new ground: The ethical terrain of nonprofit journalism,” API research exploring the philanthropic funding of journalism. Read the other [...]

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    Motivations and potential conflicts of those who fund news organizations

    The foundations and nonprofit media organizations surveyed are almost equally divided on the overall motive behind the financial support for media. Less than half of [...]

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    Unrestricted funding vital for journalism

    This essay is part of “Charting new ground: The ethical terrain of nonprofit journalism,” API research exploring the philanthropic funding of journalism. Read the other [...]

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    What metrics and outcomes funders ask for from news organizations

    Another issue in the nonprofit news landscape is about metrics, or proof that work being underwritten is reaching an audience or perhaps having even more [...]

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    How news organizations disclose relationships with funders

    The study also looked at whether the work of news organizations intersected with their partners or funders beyond the collaboration. What happens, for instance, when [...]

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