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The 2024 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival will gather leading journalists, editors, and publishers from around the world in Sarajevo from May 22 to 24, 2024. Under the theme “Navigating Crises: Journalism at a Turning Point”, this event will provide a vital space for media professionals, thought leaders, and innovators to explore new solutions, foster understanding, and critically examine the role of the media in addressing the great crises of our time.

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Organized by the International Press Institute (IPI).
Thursday, May 23 • 09:30 - 10:45
Investigative journalism’s profit puzzle: Going beyond breaking even

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Learn from industry leaders as they discuss the business model of investigative journalism, introducing best practices and strategies for diversifying revenue and paying for human-resource intensive investigative reporting. Revenue diversification, like licensing IP or building enhanced public databases, and product development to reach and engage audiences regularly and directly are often missing from debates about how investigative journalism can pay for itself independent of grants and philanthropy. From Senegal and Nigeria to Hungary and the United States, we’ll hear from experts navigating the challenges that arise for investigative publications hoping to make a return on investment in this changing media and consumer landscape.
Moderators
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Bilal Randeree

Managing Director of Media Programs, MDIF
Bilal is Managing Director of Media Programs at MDIF. He brings almost two decades of finance, management and editorial experience to this role, helping media companies navigate challenging business and operational environments. Before joining MDIF in 2017, Bilal worked for KPMG... Read More →

Speakers
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Dessi Damianova

Chief Operating Officer, Bellingcat
Dessi is Bellingcat’s Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for organisational development, fundraising and finance. She brings more than 25 years of experience as a journalist, editor and C-suite executive in the non-profit media development sector. She previously set up large... Read More →
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Juliana Mori

Co-founder, InfoAmazonia
Juliana Mori is an award winning journalist from Brazil, specialized in audiovisual productions and visualization of geospatial data. Co-founder and editorial director of InfoAmazonia, an independent media outlet that uses maps, data, and geolocalized reports to tell social environmental... Read More →
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Ron Nixon

Vice President for News, investigative, enterprise and grants and partnerships, Associated Press
Ron Nixon is AP’s Vice President for News, investigative, enterprise and grants and partnerships. Nixon received the inaugural 2021 News Leader of the Year award from the News Leaders Association. He has overseen investigations that have won a number of awards including, the 2023... Read More →
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Alina Păduraru

Reporter and executive manager, Recorder.ro
Alina Păduraru is a reporter and executive manager at Recorder, a Romanian independent video publication. After its launch in 2017, Recorder became one of the most impactful independent media outlets, producing viral video investigations and managing to spur real-life changes in... Read More →
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Hamadou Tidiane Sy

Founder, Ouestaf News
Tidiane Sy is a seasoned Senegalese journalist, now mostly active as a journalism trainer and consultant throughout Africa. Tidiane Sy founded Ouestaf News, an award-winning West African online news outlet in which a corps of independent, investigative journalists report on the stories... Read More →

Thursday May 23, 2024 09:30 - 10:45 CEST
Congress Hall
  Panel Discussion

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