{"id":27151,"date":"2022-05-20T15:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/?p=27151"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:05:31","slug":"new-report-the-new-sector-how-independent-public-interest-journalism-is-filling-gaps-in-the-european-media-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/blog\/new-report-the-new-sector-how-independent-public-interest-journalism-is-filling-gaps-in-the-european-media-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report: The New Sector &#8211;  How independent public interest journalism is filling gaps in the European media landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new generation of venturous news organisations is rising all over Europe. One that is strongly committed to serve its audience and democracy alike through public interest journalism. We call it: <strong>The New Sector<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewsector.org\">report<\/a>, Netzwerk Recherche (Germany\u2019s association of investigative journalists) \u2013 for the first time \u2013 outlines this emerging innovative media scene and takes a closer look at how The New Sector reclaims journalistic terrain that has (at least partly) been neglected by traditional media in the past.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Key take-aways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Growth<\/strong>: In the last ten years, the sector has seen rapid growth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charitable<\/strong>: About half of the surveyed outlets are legally registered non-profits.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regional Focus<\/strong>: 31% of the news organisations are engaged in local reporting, thereby filling a gap left by legacy media\u2019s trend to withdraw from local journalism.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editorial Emphasis<\/strong>: Almost three quarters of The New Sector are serving their societal role as watchdogs by providing investigative journalism.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revenue Streams<\/strong>: Individual donations and foundation support are the biggest contributors to the diversified flows of income.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What defines members of The New Sector is their \u201cnon-profit state of mind\u201d \u2013 a mindset based on the conviction of serving an audience, a community and democracy as a whole through public interest journalism. Profit is not the number one priority for these newsrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they provide much needed coverage for either local audiences and communities or those interconnected across European borders. Thus, they enable informed citizens to make good decisions.<\/p>\n<p>For this report, Netzwerk Recherche evaluated 80 valid responses to an online survey. More detailed results can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewsector.org\">www.thenewsector.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For this joint project Netzwerk Recherche collaborated with Arena for Journalism in Europe and the research institutes ZeMKI at Bremen University as well as Leibniz-Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung (Hans-Bredow-Institut) in Hamburg. The New Sector is funded by Sch\u00f6pflin Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions ? Get in touch: <a href=\"mailto:newsector@netzwerkrecherche.org\">newsector@netzwerkrecherche.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new generation of venturous news organisations is rising all over Europe. One that is strongly committed to serve its audience and democracy alike through public interest journalism. We call it: The New Sector. In a new report, Netzwerk Recherche (Germany\u2019s association of investigative journalists) \u2013 for the first time \u2013 outlines this emerging innovative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[351,350,352],"class_list":["post-27151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nonprofit-journalismus","tag-independent-media","tag-new-sector","tag-public-interest-journalism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27156,"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151\/revisions\/27156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netzwerkrecherche.org\/nr-termine-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}