A New Deal for Journalism: Designing a policy framework
The disruption of the media ecosystem and unfair competition driven in part by the move to a digital, mobile, and platform-dominated media environment jeopardizes the sustainability of journalism, which represents a major democratic danger.
The working group will ask experts, academics and jurists all over the world to propose recommendations on regulation policies directly or indirectly increasing media revenues that address the issues raised by three structural challenges.
On November 16, 2021, the Forum on Information and Democracy released the report of the working group on sustainability in journalism under the title A New Deal for Journalism.
They worked on this report
Rasmus K Nielsen, Chair
Sameer Padania, Rapporteur
Julia Cagé
Prem Chandran
Styli Charalambous
Naresh Fernandes
Elizabeth Hansen
Kwame Karikari
Arne Krumsvik
Nishant Lalwani
Mira Milosevic
Tania Montalvo
Henri Pigeat
Sibylle Rizk
Natalya Sindeyeva
Olaf Steenfadt
Kirstine Stewart
Patricia Torres-Burd
Scope of the report
Good practice from for-profit and non-profit independent news media
Summarizing good practices will aim to help share lessons learned and enable other independent news media to learn from those who have built sustainable business models for digital journalism.
Regulation favoring an enabling environment for the sustainability of journalism
The working group will provide recommendations on regulation policies directly or indirectly increasing media revenues in ways that maintain and protect the independence of news media from politicians and government officials (potential new licensing revenues, innovation in advertising and incentives to adapt media infrastructures, etc.).
Recommandations for off market policies
The working group will formulate recommendations for public subsidies, in particular with regard to the criteria for their allocation (and a fair, transparent and editorially non-binding process) and their financing.
