Explore our interactive graphics to discover the digital media landscape in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa
What communities are digital media natives serving? What topics do they cover? What journalism techniques are they using?
From Abuja to Accra, from Manaus to Manila, digital native media are building new kinds of news organizations, informing underserved communities, covering stories often neglected by others.
The majority of their founders said they started their news organizations not because they wanted to become entrepreneurs, but because they felt compelled to cover topics other media neglect. They do so in different ways and using multiple platforms, tools and formats.
Discover what topics they cover
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The dark blue vertical line represents the average across all media, the lighter blue bar shows the percentage per country or per tier.
What journalism techniques are they using?
The dark blue vertical line represents the average across all media, the lighter blue bar shows the percentage per country or per tier.
What revenue sources support high-impact journalism?
Use the blue buttons to compare revenue sources by region and/or by business maturity tier.
Primary revenue source
Based on media leaders selecting the single source that provided the most revenue in 2019.
Most popular revenue sources
Based on media leaders selecting all of the revenue sources they had implemented.
PRIMARY REVENUE SOURCE
MOST POPULAR REVENUE SOURCES
Financial findings are based only on the information we collected from the 141 media organizations that answered our questions about revenue, expenses, and initial investment. Of the 201 media leaders interviewed, 24 declined to provide confidential financial information (despite our assurance of confidentiality), and 36 were unable to answer all of the financial questions.
How many paid team members work in content vs. other skill areas?
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Nonprofit vs for-profit organizations by country
These two charts show the number of team members in each organization, by country and by corporate structure: nonprofit, for profit, or hybrid.
Media organizations by type and country
Click on the blue buttons to compare organizations by team size and year they were founded.
What communities are they trying to reach?
