How The Local’s nine news sites tweaked their way to 11,000 new paying members during the pandemic The Europe-wide network of English language sites employed reader surveys, altered working hours, membership messaging and cross-border collaboration. June 17, 2020 Tara Kelly
‘We just wanted to help.’ How the Dublin Inquirer’s neighborhood notice board brought locals together during COVID-19 The subscription publication supported locals in Ireland’s capital by creating a local services directory and focusing efforts on untold stories. June 12, 2020 Tara Kelly
How Nanook’s podcast helped Lithuanians make sense of the pandemic The media collective had a hunch that listeners wanted help demystifying the virus. A 31% increase in downloads proved that was right. June 10, 2020 Tara Kelly
What could life look like after COVID-19? Mediacités worked with its readers to explore solutions. The member-funded French local news site asked its audience how it should report on the pandemic and attracted 20% additional paying readers. June 4, 2020 Tara Kelly
Mérce grew its digital readership by 30% by doubling down on the everyday effects of COVID-19. Here’s how. Reader donations run this independent Hungarian news site. So it covered COVID-19’s impact on housing, food and labor as carefully as the death toll. June 2, 2020 Tara Kelly
Two months, a voluntary 30% price increase and 18,000 new paying readers: What eldiario.es did after COVID-19 struck eldiario.es found itself in financial difficulties when coronavirus hit. Until 18,000 new members and thousands of existing readers stepped in. May 28, 2020 Tara Kelly
‘We have our readers behind us’ — how Reporter Magazin created a premium tier to turn casual readers into paying subscribers When COVID-19 kept people buying its magazine from newsstands, the Czech publication started a subscription push and crowdfunding campaign May 22, 2020 Tara Kelly
How Radio ARA powered its pandemic programming with the help of multilingual volunteers Working with citizen presenters and engineers enabled a local radio station in Luxembourg to disseminate COVID-19 news in nine different languages. May 19, 2020 Tara Kelly
How COVID-19 made Teyit rethink their fact-checking for the small screen Turkey’s only independent verification platform is fighting the infodemic with TV clips, video explainers, WhatsApp stickers and webinars May 12, 2020 Tara Kelly
