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How an Online Publication Did the Unthinkable: Selling Subscriptions to Kazakh Readers

May 27, 2020
Journalism Breakthroughs
Innovations in Operation
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Financial challenges are not uncommon for news organizations in Kazakhstan. Many rely on government funding, which jeopardizes their editorial independence. Vlast, an online platform, found a better solution.

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How Misinformation Became a Profitable Business in Eastern Europe

May 26, 2020
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In several eastern European countries, misinformation is a lucrative business, reliant on advertising revenue, and pulling in cash from a variety of other sources including government subsidies, crowdfunding, tax designations, donations and sales of merchandise.

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Balkan Insight Publishes Investigation as a Result of a CMDS Project

May 22, 2020
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The article ‘Decimated Danube: Sturgeon Revival Efforts Neglect Roots of Poaching’ is the result of our Black Waters project, implemented by Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in partnership with Átlátszó and CMDS.

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Nepali Television Show Switches to Home Production

May 22, 2020
Journalism Breakthroughs
Innovations in Operation
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As the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown disrupted media operations in Nepal, a local journalist moved his television talk-show online. An audience of 300,000 people soon followed.

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Seminar on Digital Rights by Wessenauer

May 21, 2020
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Our Fellow, Veszna Wessenauer, research manager of the Ranking Digital Rights project, will discuss questions related to digital rights in the seminar organized by OLIve Weekend Program Budapest.

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