‘A lasting online resource’: The Journalism Value Project closes

We’ve come to the end of a successful two years of the Journalism Value Project (JVP). The five partners behind the JVP have achieved the mission of mapping the value and the needs of independent non-profit media across Europe. Our findings will continue to be accessible via this website so that newsrooms can use them to promote financial viability for themselves and across the industry into the future.

The project resources that you can find on this site:

• The Journalism Value Report: An in-depth survey of the state of European independent media,
• Independent media map: based on the survey, an interactive mapping of the nonprofit newsroom landscape,
• The Loop: A 26-part podcast series of podcasts where members of the Reference network share business-related lessons learned,
• Study Visit guidelines: a methodology for newsroom learning exchanges to help each other solve concrete non-editorial challenges,
• The Proposal: Reframing Public Interest Journalism in Europe: A white-paper with recommendations for funders, politicians, and civil society stakeholders.

The project was run in collaboration with the Reference – the European Independent Media Circle, who will continue the JVP activity strands to continue to strengthen public interest media in Europe. You can keep up with all the activities of this growing network of independent newsrooms across Europe at the website (linked above), and via their social media.

Arena for Journalism in Europe was the lead partner, alongside Netzwerk Recherche who conducted the Survey, Átlátszó Erdély and Fumaça who co-ordinated the Loop, and Investigate Europe who organised and led the Proposal.

We’d like to extend a huge thanks to the European Union’s European Education and Culture Executive Agency, and the Journalism Funders Forum (part of Philea) who supported the project.

The JVP website will remain live, acting as a repository for these findings, and a lasting online resource for independent news organisations, funders, politicians and civil society supporters in years to come.