By focusing on delivering a meaningful and relevant experience to our readers, DER SPIEGEL has built a loyal and engaged community of subscribers who actively seek out our brand and value the content we provide. Origen: How we measure audience engagement at DER SPIEGEL | The Audiencers

In my quarter-century as a journalist, I’ve seen many media business models come and go. Each new idea brought with it the hope that this new business structure — or funder or technological development — would be the thing to save journalism. Would it be digital media, nonprofit newsrooms, community engagement, participatory journalism, billionaire owners, hedge funds, product thinking, social-first models, reinvestment in local journalism, or artificial intelligence? Origen: Hey...

In August 1939, a young woman named Clare Hollingworth got her first journalism assignment. “You must go to Warsaw tonight,” her editor said. Days later, after Hollingworth spotted “hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns” near the Polish border with Czechoslovakia, the 27-year-old cub reporter kicked off her career with a once-in-a-lifetime dispatch heralding the outbreak of World War II: “1,000 TANKS MASSED ON POLISH FRONTIER. TEN DIVISIONS...

As publishers are struggling to monetise news, there’s been growing interest in the nonprofit model. The idea is that high-quality journalism is a public good that either cannot be monetised commercially at all or would suffer under commercial incentives. Origen: Navigating nonprofit journalism - The Fix