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Hi John,
It’s week two of our Better Sharing fundraising campaign and we have some exciting news to share.
Our campaign is going strong. We're happy to announce that you have helped us raise nearly $4,000 since our launch ten days ago. All of us at CC are so grateful for your generosity.
In the weeks leading up to our big Better Sharing fundraiser on July 19th*, we’re highlighting how opening up knowledge can help us solve some of the world's most pressing challenges.
Last week, we looked at CC’s Open Climate Campaign. This week, we’re exploring another new CC program: Open Journalism.
*A previous email listed an incorrect date for our Better Sharing fundraiser, which is officially on July 19th.
Earlier this year, Creative Commons launched a new Open Journalism series “Ground Truth in Open Internet.” The six-part series ran through March, and explored the intersection of open access and journalism using global case studies to unpack the benefits and limitations of CC licensing in combating misinformation, financial challenges, and more.
We followed this series with the release of a global report on the state of journalism “Journalism Research: From Broken Revenue Models to Embracing an ‘Open’ Ethos.” To develop this report, we surveyed and conducted focus groups with over 500 journalists across 18 countries, querying them on their challenges, needs, concerns, and assessment of a rapidly changing digital news landscape.
Journalists noted the challenges of “fake news” and physical and digital safety among other timely issues. They also emphasized the need for open, accessible, and high quality data and training in the uses of the CC license and open source platforms leveraged to crowdsource information.
CC knows that applying open internet practices can help free the flow of critical information to empower journalists and citizens around the world. There are many excellent examples of this.
Meduza is one news source successfully implementing Open Journalism practices. Meduza, which releases news in English and Russian, is now CC licensing all coverage around the war in Ukraine to combat censorship and disinformation. This move came after Meduza CC licensed over 100 investigative journalism articles in a successful campaign to free journalist Ivan Golunov in 2019.
CC licenses and CC licensed images and research are available to all journalists and newsrooms, like Meduza, to freely use. However, surveys like ours point to the need for more training opportunities to increase journalists’ access to and understanding of public domain tools on a global scale. Creative Commons’ Open Journalism program seeks to do just that.
Join us next week where we’ll zero in on our Open Culture program, exploring the limitations and possibilities of social media platforms like TikTok in promoting remix culture.
In the meantime, here are some ways you can support our Better Sharing campaign:
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Thanks!
The CC Team 
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