Membership models are on the rise. They are more than just a way to diversify revenue streams. They aim to build a new and solid foundation for journalism. Building a successful membership program req...
Lea Korsgaard
Lea Korsgaard is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Zetland, a Danish media company dedicated to journalism as a force of good – now counting more than 28,000 paying members. Zetland has won numerous prizes, one of them as 'Europe’s best news app' and has 40+ journalists, editors, and digital designers working from the headquarter in Copenhagen. Lea is the author of several books, among them the highly praised The Media User's Manual to the Age of Lies (Zetland, 2017). Before co-founding Zetland she was a feature writer at Politiken and Berlingske. She holds a BA in journalism and a MA in Sociology from The New School in New York.
Events IJF 2023
The pandemic has accelerated the shift towards reader revenue models. Most of the news leaders recently surveyed by the Reuters Institute say that memberships and digital subscriptions will be their m...
Once upon a time they were the audience. Then "the people formerly known as the audience". Then came the backlash, with comment sections closed down and a revolt against social media. Then a counter-m...
In the 20th century media build authority be standing on top of a pedestal and talking down to its audience. Today media and journalists build authority by stepping down from that pedestal and being p...
In the 20th century media built authority by standing on top of a pedestal and talking down to its audience. Today media and journalists build authority by stepping down from that pedestal and being p...
Publishers are embracing reader revenue models around the world as a way to depend less on advertising and diversify their revenue streams. This change requires building a more integrated organization...
A new generation of media outlets is changing the rules of the game. In recent years, a number of new media players with innovative business models have emerged in various markets around the globe. Re...
This panel will examine the membership models of several news outlets in Europe. Membership models are increasingly popular. They’ve been embraced by small publications but also by big news organiza...
As we saw in the 1980s with fast food spreading all over the world, today fast news is invading every space of information - bringing inaccuracy, non-verified and often completely fake news to audienc...
Facebook said it is shifting to enabling "meaningful interaction between people." Media companies emphasize conversation as the goal of community? Is that the right definition of community? Let's help...
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