Revenue Beacon Cohort
Program Years: 2023-24
Pictured: Members of the 2023-24 Revenue Beacon Cohort at the kickoff design session in Dallas.
Starting in November 2023, five newsrooms joined SJN to explore innovative ways to tie their solutions journalism to new revenue. The members of this cohort were AL.com, Civil Eats, The Dallas Morning News, The Keene Sentinel and WSHU public media. SJN staff members supported their work, as well as a stellar set of coaches with deep experience in helping news organizations build products and revenue. These five participating newsrooms prototyped and tested products tied to their solutions coverage, and started to raise money to support them, a process that will continue into 2025 and beyond.
How Five Newsrooms Tied Solutions Journalism to New Dollars
Here’s a summary of the Revenue Cohort's efforts, and more detailed case studies.
