{"id":207776,"date":"2024-02-24T06:18:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T06:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/who-will-pay-for-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:39","slug":"who-will-pay-for-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/who-will-pay-for-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will pay for the truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/p>\n<div id='financing_journalism'><\/div>\n<section id='financing_journalism' class=\"my1 infobox infobox-og hide-desktop infobox-red\">\n<div style=\"margin:0!important\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"hide-mobile\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 20px\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/eastern-european-independent-journalist-fund\/\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0!important\" class=\"block w100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/a03c18ca8103e4748a9c9280fcc2eec1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for: Eastern European Independent Journalist Fund\"><br \/>\n      <\/a><\/figure>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin-top: 0\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0\" class=\"h3 lh2\"><a class=\"ul-black-10 fw500\" style=\"font-size: 120%\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/eastern-european-independent-journalist-fund\/\">Eastern European Independent Journalist Fund<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"py05 fw500 lh3\">An urgent lifeline for journalists from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<aside class=\"hide-mobile\">\n<div class=\"copy\">\n<ul class=\"fw500 lh2 color-red linkfix\">\n<li><a class=\"ul-black-10:hover\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/authors\/eurozine-news-item\/\">Eurozine News Item<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"post-intext-divider py05 span1 div color-black-10\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <\/span>The pace of media consumption has accelerated in the past few decades. News cycles have become ever shorter since &#8211; a tendency started by radio and TV and further sped up by the internet boom. In a timespan of ten minutes or less, it\u2019s possible to know about the weather, local updates, and geo-political analyses of recent events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/se\/sv\/pages\/technology-media-and-telecommunications\/topics\/digital-consumer-trends\/are-younger-generations-moving-away-from-traditional-news-sources.html\">Over 60% of Gen Zers and millennials rely on one or more social media platforms as their news source.<\/a> They have shifted from conventional means to obtain news, such as radio or television, in favour of podcasts and online videos, to name a few examples. The internet has definitely become the main source of new information and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2017\/06\/using-social-media-appears-to-diversify-your-news-diet-not-narrow-it\/\">allowed people to diversify their sources<\/a> on their own accord, pushing also for more open-source platforms, and defying the limits of freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>Not devoid of state propaganda, the demand for press freedom persists amongst journalists globally, as censorship is exercised on all fronts. Whether through direct state repression, or more subtle algorithmic silencing, journalism is defined by the vehicles that carry it.<\/p>\n<p>One thing remains constant in the face of the journalistic wheel being reinvented, and it\u2019s that journalists and media producers still need to sustain themselves on a material level. According to Dr. G\u00e1bor Poly\u00e1k, young people are more inclined to pay for a Netflix subscription than a small news media outlet, making it ever more difficult to rely on the audience to fund journalists\u2019 labour.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Nzingo argues that building a relationship with the audience is one approach to get them to pay for the continuation of journalists\u2019 work, however unsustainable that may be. Monetizing off of clicks and views is another one that has emerged in recent years. However, state and long-term donor funding continue to be the most reliable sources of income, but this too comes at a price; the push and pull between the limitations of publishing and affording to do so remains prevalent.<\/p>\n<p>Outcries for independent, self-sustained media are still on the rise, and a mixture of different sources of funding is still required to uphold certain ethics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ariadne-network.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/An-Introduction-to-Funding-Journalism-and-Media.pdf\">In Europe particularly, there\u2019s still a long way to go when it comes to proposing formal strategies to do so.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keeping up with the interests of both the young and old is ever-demanding, and this competition for attention can be a hindrance to the advancement of news as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>We hear more from our guests:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiona Nzingo<\/strong> is a journalist from Kenya, who currently serves as membership and engagement manager at the <a href=\"https:\/\/gfmd.info\/\">Global Forum for Media Development<\/a>. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. G\u00e1bor Poly\u00e1k<\/strong> is the head of <a href=\"http:\/\/media.elte.hu\/eng\/\">ELTE M\u00c9DIA<\/a>, the School of Media Studies at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, Budapest, Hungary. He\u2019s also the head of the think tank <a href=\"https:\/\/mertek.eu\/en\/\">M\u00e9rt\u00e9k Media Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vladimir Radinovi\u0107<\/strong> is a co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/\">Podcast.rs<\/a> from Belgrade, Serbia. He is on the board of directors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmfe.eu\/\">Community Media Forum of Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We meet with them at the School of English and American Studies Library at the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Creative team<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R\u00e9ka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Merve Akyel, art director<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Szilvia Pint\u00e9r, producer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zs\u00f3fia Gabriella Papp, digital producer<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salma Shaka, writer-editor<br \/>\nMargarita Lechner, writer-editor<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Priyanka Hutschenreiter, project assistant<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Management<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hermann Riessner\u00a0 managing director<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judit Csik\u00f3s\u00a0 project manager<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Csilla Nagyn\u00e9 Kardos, office administration<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Video Crew Budapest<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">N\u00f3ra Ruszkai, sound engineering<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gergely \u00c1ron P\u00e1pai, photography<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Hal\u00e1sz, photography<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Postproduction<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">N\u00f3ra Ruszkai, lead video editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kateryna Kuzmenko dialogue editor<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Art<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Victor Maria Lima, animation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tXDcB6ExCcA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cornelia Frischauf, theme music<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><b>Captions and subtitles<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Julia Sobota\u00a0 closed captions, Polish and French subtitles; language versions management<\/p>\n<p>Farah Ayyash\u00a0 Arabic subtitles<br \/>\nMia Bel\u00e9n Soriano\u00a0 Spanish subtitles<br \/>\nMarta Ferdebar\u00a0 Croatian subtitles<br \/>\nL\u00eddia N\u00e1dori\u00a0 German subtitles<br \/>\nKatalin Szlukov\u00e9nyi\u00a0 Hungarian subtitles<br \/>\nDaniela Univazo\u00a0 German subtitles<br \/>\nOlena Yermakova\u00a0 Ukrainian subtitles<br \/>\nAida Yermekbayeva\u00a0 Russian subtitles<br \/>\nMars Zaslavsky\u00a0 Italian subtitles<\/p>\n<h3><b>Host<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>The School of English and American Studies Library at the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Sources<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/se\/sv\/pages\/technology-media-and-telecommunications\/topics\/digital-consumer-trends\/are-younger-generations-moving-away-from-traditional-news-sources.html\">Are younger generations moving away from traditional news sources?<\/a> by Deloitte.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2017\/06\/using-social-media-appears-to-diversify-your-news-diet-not-narrow-it\/\">Using social media appears to diversify your news diet, not narrow it<\/a> by Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, NiemanLab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2017\/06\/using-social-media-appears-to-diversify-your-news-diet-not-narrow-it\/\">An Introduction to Funding Journalism and Media<\/a> by Sameer Padania, Macroscope.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclosure<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This talk show is a Display Europe production: a ground-breaking media platform anchored in public values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This programme is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the European Cultural Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Importantly, the views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors and speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). 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