Our most ambitious membership campaign to date included ambassadors, endorsers, new technology and a lot of advance planning. Since the first issue of DoR came out of the printers for the first time 11 years ago, the community of readers has been at the heart of the growth that followed…

Journalists talk a lot about change: changing the industry, the business model, changing themselves. But finding the time and energy to actually enact this change is often difficult. When the world seems in constant turmoil, remaking yourself into a better and more engaged listener, for example, shouldn’t be that high…

We are publishing this piece June 11, the day we were awarded the European Press Prizes’ Innovation Award for our Transylvanian pop-up newsroom last year. It’s both an honor and an opportunity to celebrate our amazing team, community, and partners; we couldn’t have done this without all of you. If…

Social media tends to be a workflow question mark at DoR. We’re a team of 20 people, with more than half focused on editorial work. …

The first week of March found DoR with a new home: we moved from our previous newsroom to a larger place, where we hoped to host community events. We had already filled the calendar for March and April with a fair number of workshops. We were also doing the first…

We’ve read a lot about starting from scratch with a membership model for a media organisation. Or starting up a new product within the wider organisation that has a membership model. But there haven’t been many examples we could find of organisations shifting an already hybrid business model to prioritise…

We’ve read a lot about starting from scratch with a membership model for a media organisation. Or starting up a new product within the wider organisation that has a membership model. But there haven’t been many examples we could find of organisations shifting an already hybrid business model to prioritise…

Between 22 and 26 July we moved our entire newsroom — 30 people — to Târgu Mureș, a town in Transylvania about 350 km away from our usual location in Bucharest, Romania. …

The past two years have been essential for how we work and how we define our journalism. We’ve transformed, we’ve grown and we learned along the way. Here’s what happened. By Cristian Lupșa, editor, DoR. The idea of DoR was born on a night when a handful of journalists drank too much beer and built a concept for a magazine. That was April 23, 2009, so 10 years ago. …