How Conexión Migrante became a switchboard for Latino migrants in the U.S.

Patricia Mercado launched Conexión Migrante from Mexico City on Nov. 8, 2016. After watching the discourse on immigration during the 2016 election campaign, she knew Mexican migrants would need their own news source. But it wasn’t until they published an answer to a migrant’s question about passports that they realized that the questions were answering in private channels were also story ideas with a guaranteed audience.

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Case study: How “members getting members” brought Zetland to financial sustainability

In 2019, Danish news organization Zetland had to face a hard truth: they had an enthusiastic base of supporters, but after three years, they still were not financially sustainable. So they took a gamble: if they opened up about their true financial situation and appealed to members’ passion for Zetland, could they enlist those members to become ambassadors and help them change their financial trajectory?

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