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SUMMARY:Funding Freedom
DESCRIPTION:What is the Indian reader willing to pay for\, and what do they expect for free?  \nThis panel moves past the familiar lament and into the mechanics of the business. They explore what it actually takes to run a news organisation outside the influence of advertisers\, owners\, and the state. Subscription models\, donor funding\, collaborative structures\, and open access: each approach comes with its own compromises\, its own pressures\, and its own relationship with the reader. \nThe conversation will examine how different kinds of journalism\, from daily news to long-form investigation and data-driven research\, demand different economic answers. Can advertising coexist with independence? And how are newsrooms absorbing the growing financial and legal burden of independent reporting?  \nIndependent journalism in India is alive. What it costs to keep it that way is another matter entirely.  \n
URL:https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/funding-freedom/
LOCATION:Bangalore International Centre\, 7\, 4th Main Road\, Domlur II Stage\, Bangalore\, Karnataka\, 560071\, India
CATEGORIES:Media,Policy & Regulation,Society
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