What can Nonprofit Journalists Actually do for Democracy?

Konieczna, Magda; Powers, Elia

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2015.1134273

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“…In a rare exception, Konieczna and Powers (2016) discuss the consequences of a focus on impact at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). They argue that there is an impact orientation at the ICIJ, which appears to have been encouraged by the organisation's foundation funders.…”

Section: Foundation Funding and Journalistic Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They argue that there is an impact orientation at the ICIJ, which appears to have been encouraged by the organisation's foundation funders. Konieczna andPowers (2016, 1542) conclude that this may be "leading ICIJ to measure its democratic role in a way that sets its behaviour apart from traditional journalistic entities" and ask whether it may, "cross the line from journalism into advocacy".…”

Section: Foundation Funding and Journalistic Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The work of both Benson (2017) and Konieczna and Powers (2016) is important because it suggests that the consequences of philanthro-journalism may extend well beyond concerns for journalistic autonomy to include effects on journalistic values and practices in general (see also Wright 2018, 193-198). Benson's (2017) work, for example, suggests that foundations may modify understandings of who journalists aim to serve, how and based on what financial model.…”

Section: Foundation Funding and Journalistic Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second main consequence of the ways foundations interact with journalists is that journalists may be incentivised, as Konieczna and Powers (2016) have suggested, to adopt more outcome-oriented role perceptions by the impact agenda of foundations. In our interviews, journalists' responses to this impact agenda were generally characterised by a sense of ambivalence.…”

Section: How Do Foundation-journalist Interactions Shape Journalism?mentioning

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Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism

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Private foundations are an important source of funding for many news outlets. It has even been suggested that they may offer a partial solution to journalism's economic crisis. Yet we do not know how foundation funding shapes journalistic practice. In this article, we show that foundation funding has a significant effect on the "boundaries of journalism". That is, the ways in which journalists understand, value and practice their journalism. This argument is based on 74 interviews with the most active foundations funding international non-profit news and the journalists they support. In general, we found that these foundations did not try to directly influence the content of the journalism they funded. However, their involvement did make a difference. It created requirements and incentives for journalists to do new, non-editorial tasks, as well as longer-form, off-agenda, "impactful" news coverage in specific thematic areas. As a result, foundations are ultimately changing the role and contribution of journalism in society. We argue that these changes are the result of various forms of "boundary work", or performative struggles over the nature of journalism. This contrasts with most previous literature, which has focused on the effects of foundation funding on journalistic autonomy.

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Section: Foundation Funding and Journalistic Autonomymentioning

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Section: Foundation Funding and Journalistic Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Foundation Funding and Journalistic Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism

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“…Correctiv's attempts to combine civic tech applications and investigative journalism and its relatively long-term focus on particular subjects creates expanded opportunities for sustained collaborations in joint projects with civic tech organizations like mySociety. It seems likely that the collaborations between civic tech and journalism will primarily happen around specialized media organizations that follow the ProPublica or other non-profit models (Konieczna and Powers 2016) and do not focus on daily news reporting.…”

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Practically Engaged

Baack

2017

Digital Journalism

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This article explores the entanglements between data journalists and civic technologists. Following an approach inspired by practice theory, it describes how they form a community that comes together through interlocking practices and complementary values and ambitions. Data journalists and civic technologists interlock along a continuum that oscillates between practices of facilitating (enabling others to take action themselves) and gatekeeping (being impactful and steer public debates). Depending on how much emphasis is put on either facilitating or gatekeeping, four different groups are identified that differ in how they position their work, in their professional self-understanding and in how they use data: Normalizers, Experimenters, Translators and Facilitators. The article concludes by suggesting that actors populating this community of practice can be described as flexible data professionals who aspire to work in a public interest. The findings illustrate how the progressive datafication of social life creates new entanglements between the field of journalism and civil society and we should pay more attention to such entanglements and the implications for increasingly datafied publics.

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Philanthropy‐Supported Journalism

Browne¹

2019

The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies

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There is a widespread perception that the market is failing to ensure the provision of high quality, impactful journalism, especially investigative work and in-depth coverage of governmental and international affairs. One answer to that market failing has been the development of philanthropy-supported journalism. Some writers see this as a potentially important, if partial, solution to journalism's problems, strengthening the editorial focus on creating social and policy impacts. Others have expressed concern that philanthropic support draws journalists toward elite orientations, with both funders themselves and their desired audiences representing the socioeconomic upper tiers.

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What can Nonprofit Journalists Actually do for Democracy?

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Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism

Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism

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