Inside Story’s founder and publisher Dimitris Xenakis on community engagement

The Loop is a Journalism Value Project podcast, brought to you by Reference, a self-organized network of 26 European independent news outlets, hosted by Arena for Journalism.We are interviewing the members of this network about key challenges for them, ranging from funding and business models, to community engagement and organizational structures, as we explore what success and sustainability looks like for European independent media today.In this episode, we talk to Inside Story’s founder and publisher, Dimitris Xenakis. Inside Story is an investigative journalism project in Greece. We talked about their subscription model and how they are engaging their community by letting them into the journalistic process. The readers can be part of the team and can pitch stories and discuss how they are conducted.Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.