RiffReporter

https://www.riffreporter.de/

The cooperative RiffReporter comprises over 100 active contributors across five continents. The magazines cover several topics, with titles such as Africa Reporters, Cycling Reporters, AI for All, Animal Reporters, Space Reports, Climate Changes (in German: Klima Wandelt), and The Other Body (in German: Der Andere Körper).

The name RiffReporters outlines why the cooperative exists: riff means reef in English and refers to "a diverse, lively, colourful, collaborative, and at the same time important protection against floods and storms. Reefs are threatened just like the free press in many regions of the world". RiffReporter offers the platform and content management system (CMS) for all members to publish multimedia content independently or collaboratively, according to the agreed ethics code overseen by an ethics council. Its aim is to diversify the information available to the German-speaking public and provide independent journalists with viable income.

RiffReporter is financed through membership - with the cooperative infrastructure self-sustaining through a percentage of revenue from journalist members. Additional developments to the platform - such as RiffLive, a platform bringing together event managers with expert speakers from the group, or the Marketplace, a space for other publishing institutions to buy the rights to specific articles - are financed by partners, such as the Media Innovation Centre Babelsberg or the Google News Initiative respectively. Individual pieces or series are also often cross-financed.

Subscribers can choose solidarity or supporter packages, ranging from eight to 23 euros monthly, or pay for single pieces or magazines, whilst some articles remain free of charge on the website and via the newsletter.

The cooperative and its members have received multiple awards for their work, including the Netzwende-Award in 2017, the Science Journalism Award in 2017, and the Grimme Online Award in the category of Science and Education in 2018.

The information in this media profile was collected through desk research. Last updated: January 2023


Source: Oasis Europe

Location:
Berlin, Germany
Year the organization started publishing:
2018
Languages:
German
Type of coverage:
International
Countries of coverage:
Other
Other countries of coverage:
Global

Content

Editorial coverage:
General news or a number of topics that are not necessarily closely related to each other
Type of content produced by theme:
Science
Entrepreneurship
Economy and finance
Environment
Politics
Technology
Economy and business
Law and crime
Journalism genres:
Essays
Interviews and reporting
Opinion
Investigative journalism
Narrative journalism
Journalism coverage types and techniques:
Solutions or constructive journalism
Engaged, community-driven or participatory journalism
Explanatory journalism
Cross-border journalism
Collaborative journalism
Tech platforms and other mediums used:
Website
Social media platforms
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn
Primary tech platform or medium used to publish content:
Website

Audience and reach

Social media audience

Facebook number of followers:
3,787
Twitter number of followers:
17,300
Instagram number of followers:
3,408
YouTube number of followers:
165

Management and team

Founders

Female:
1
Male:
4
Founders:
Tanja Krämer, Christian Schwägerl, Uwe H Martin, Maximilian Steinbeis, Sebastian Brink
Directors:

Team

Full-time employees:
0
Part-time employees:
0
Freelancers or consultants:
0
Volunteers:
0

Business structure and revenue sources

Organization tax status:
Hybrid (for & nonprofit)
All revenue sources reported by media leaders:
Grants
Grants from private donor organisations
Grants or investment from philanthropic organisations
Grants from Google
Grants from local and national government, and other connected governmental institutions or entities
Consultancy services
Services for clients and other private corporations
Services for nonprofit organisations
Product development and sales
Content services for others
Content development for other media
Content development for other non-journalistic companies
Audience support / reader revenue
Memberships
Individual donations
Other
The primary source of revenue reported by media leaders:
Memberships
Others revenue sources:
percentage of cooperative members income, and non-voting investing members

Transparency

Doesn’t publish information about annual revenue
Publishes the names of donors
Has an ethics policy / manual
Publishes an ethics policy / manual
Has a data privacy policy
Publishes a data privacy policy
Publishes up to date information about its team
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