Events like Engagement Explained Live: Building resilience, which we held in Budapest on 6 November, are fulfilling and enlightening. But they are also usually more beneficial to those who can be in the room on the day.
We recognise that it is a privilege to be able to join others in learning about community-driven journalism across Europe and to dedicate time to personal development. To help facilitate this, we provided more than 20 travel allowances to cover travel and accommodation costs for participants to attend.
As part of our commitment to inspire news organisations across Europe to experiment with new forms of engaged journalism, we’re sharing the resources used throughout the day so you can explore them in your own time and share them with colleagues in your organisation.
We’ve also outlined the five ingredients that make up the recipe for resilient engaged journalism in this Medium post (complete with concrete examples and exercises to try).
Let us know how you make use of the resources shared below - just drop us a line at [email protected].
Lightning talks
1. Lika Antadze, executive director, Chai Khana: Working with and for a geographically diverse community
2. Lois Kapila, managing editor, Dublin Inquirer: Running a citizens' agenda for Dublin's local elections
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3. Sune Gudmundsson, co-founder, Koncentrat: What Koncentrat learnt from trying to scale responsibly
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Masterclasses
1. What does it take to build and lead resilient teams? - Przemek Gawrónski, partner, Scherer Leadership Center
Related readings and resources:
- How would you like leadership in journalism to be different?
- Stacy-Marie Ishmael on leadership in a time of turmoil
- Leadership is a service: how to help your team find purpose and navigate change
- Here are 17 management and executive leadership programs for journalists
2. Be the change you want to see: Creating an internal culture of community, participation and inclusion in your organisation - Zuzanna Ziomecka, journalists and coach
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3. Pathways for participation: How to turn your community members into the best advocates for your work - Zahra Davidson, co-founder, Enrol Yourself
- Speaker slides
- Case studies used in the masterclass
- Advocate canvas and advocate strategy canvas
Related readings and resources:
- Report: What would journalism look like if it was generated from within communities?
- Report: Stronger journalism through shared power
- How Global Voices created a community council to give users a say in its future strategy
- How Zetland asked its members to help recruit new members (in Danish) and Zetland wants to take membership engagement one step further. This is how.
4. No product manager? No problem: A 101 guide to product thinking for community-driven news organisations - Rishad Patel, co-founder of Splice Media
Related readings and resources:
- How a podcast created a language app to better serve its audience
- How product thinking transforms our newsroom
5. Funding journalism through reader revenues: A checklist for sustainability - Clare Cook, co-founder of Media Innovation Studio
Related readings and resources:
- Why we are talking about reader revenues and what you need to know
- A useful guide for news organisations assessing revenue-making opportunities in small teams
- A playbook for news organisations looking to engage members and drive revenue growth
- How Civio’s energy subsidy checker helped readers and supported its membership drive
- Taking ownership: Community empowerment through crowdfunding investment
- Building subscriptions and memberships for quality journalism
- Reader Revenue Toolkit from American Press Institute
- Revenue roles in local news: Case studies from exemplary civic news organisations
- Digital subscriptions: Benchmarks and best practices from 500+ publications worldwide
- Six questions you should ask yourself before launching a membership model
- The Membership Puzzle Project's launch handbook
- Guide to audience revenue and engagement
