IrpiMedia's director Cecilia Anesi on how to handle growth

The Loop is a Journalism Value project podcast, brought to you by Reference. 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 take a look at how the Italian IrpiMedia grew from a group of freelance journalists publishing in legacy media into an investigative newsroom collaborating with dozens of freelancers. They also have a project where they work together with community journalists working in news deserts in Italy.But how does a small team handle such growth? How can the tasks be effectively split between the co-founders? And how is it possible to create a balance between growth and sustainability?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.