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The need to find sustainable revenue streams and ways of successfully operating a small business is inspiring many journalism innovators to explore a range of business models. What’s working — or not working — for you? JA is gathering a range of experiments for (and from) the JA community to learn more about how others are resourcing their work and serving the unique needs of their audiences.

Copyblogger: WordPress Design, Traffic, and Conversion Solutions

Looking for smart tips to produce "...traffic, links, subscribers, and a profit-generating website?" Copyblogger tutorials cover SEO, keywords, landing pages...all free.

Quantcast Learning Center

Who is your audience? How are similar online news ventures doing? Quantcast offers one solution that “provides free, directly measured traffic and audience composition reports” to up clarity and ad rates.

Finding your funding model (Stanford Social Innovation Review)

For current or potential nonprofit publishers: specific, thoughtful research to help you “identify and develop the right funding model.” Practical guidance to start out or scale up for success.

Online Publishers Association

The other online publishing news association. Membership is pricey, but the site offers free, useful research on trends in advertising and technology. Representing the interests of publishers.

Predictions for Journalism 2012 (Nieman Lab)

Will social media get boring? Will Amazon conquer? See 23 predictions for journalism in 2012 that could inspire your future. These bright writers weigh in on what may matter most.

New Voices: What Works

J-Lab examines “what worked and what didn’t” after five years of grants to local news projects. 2010 lessons on what leads to growth or disappointment still timely.

Business Model Generation

Business Model Generation includes a book co-created by "470 practitioners," hands-on tools and a forum. All to "systematically understand, design and implement" new biz models or refresh the mix.

paidContent

Chronicling “the economic evolution of digital content that is shaping the future of the media, information and entertainment industries,” paidContent is a one-stop info shop on content monetization.

Newsonomics: How the emerging business of digital news shapes what we read and know

In the “age of Darwinian content” media analyst Ken Doctor probes the economics of journalism with insights so sharp Nieman and others cite his writing and source his findings.

Nieman Journalism Lab

With warp drive analysis and reporting, Nieman Lab beams readers to the cyber-edge of journalism, probing technologies, techniques and philosophies of innovators navigating the digital frontier.
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