If you've sat through a budget meeting where someone asks "but what's the actual point of news?", or you've tried to explain to a funder, a council, or your own board why your newsroom deserves another year of support, you'll know how hard it is to answer with anything more than "well, democracy needs us."

A new evidence report, The Value of Journalism: Global evidence on why media matters to economics, national security and crises, commissioned by DW Akademie, the International Fund for Public Interest Journalism and UNESCO, has done the legwork for you. It pulls together two decades of rigorous, cross-disciplinary research to show exactly how and why journalism pays off. This gives you an edge when........

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