PETALING JAYA: Advocacy journalism has paid off for The Star's youth news and lifestyle platform R.AGE, which has turned it into a profitable journalistic model. R.AGE started in 2015 as a class newspaper pullout, but editor Ian Yee had a vision to transform it into "hardcore" investigative documentaries. According to Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), R.AGE's journey stumbled upon a new business model of advocacy journalism when management would not pay for Yee's proposal. On questions whether advocacy money affected the team's reporting, Yee said sponsors were not allowed editorial input in stories. He said R.AGE could not directly profit from lobbying as its paychecks went to The Star.

Source: The Star December 18, 2018 07:41 UTC