Toronto-based freelance reporter Naheed Mustafa always paid her own way when she reported from abroad. But that meant that about 70 percent to 80 percent of what she earned went straight toward paying for the costs of traveling. Most news organizations don’t reimburse freelancers for travel costs, and the ones that do don’t offer a lot. Mustafa… Read More
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The much anticipated journo crowdfunding site Vourno is on track to launch live on Monday, according to a recent tweet from their twitter account. Vourno hopes to be world’s largest funding platform and independent news network for video journalism. A crowdfunding platform where news is funded, produced and distributed openly and the crowd decides how… Read More
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A crowdfunding campaign currently live on RocketHub aims to bring a funding solution to the dwindling discipline of long-form investigative journalism. NEWSFREED aims to bring crowdsourcing and crowdfunding aspects to journalism, and the elevator pitch outlines a pretty cool product that could have some legs in the real world if the associated crowdfunding campaign can… Read More
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Crowdfunding campaign will support a professional stenographer to produce transcripts and provide them to the public and press Freedom of the Press Foundation has announced a crowdfunding campaign to hire a professional court stenographer to produce transcripts of the trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning, scheduled to begin June 3rd, 2013. In a press release on… Read More
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In new research forthcoming in Information Systems Research, Anindya Ghose, NYU Stern Associate Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences and co-Director of the Center for Business Analytics, with Gordon Burtch at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and Sunil Wattal at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, quantifies how donors influence each other… Read More
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When the NPR show Planet Money wanted to put together a project about the economic life-cycle of a T-shirt, Kickstarter seemed like the natural approach — and it showed how much crowdfunding has in common with public media. When the reporting team at Planet Money — a joint venture between PRI’s This American Life and National Public… Read More
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In the old days, Alice Feiring knew exactly what she needed to do to launch her natural wine newsletter – find a publisher willing to give her an advance. But the old days are gone, and publishers are worrying about other things, like staying in business. So Feiring, perhaps the most respected natural wine writer… Read More
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Last year, I wrote a pretty controversial piece about Matter, a long-form science journalism web site with little inkling of a business model that managed to raise $140,000 on Kickstarter from 2,566 people who apparently have far bigger hearts and more optimism about the future of journalism than I do. But sorry folks, you’ve been used and abused. What did… Read More
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PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL has launched a crowdfunding campaign on INDIEGOGO to raise $25,000 for its Global Reporting Fund to provide coverage of 11 stories for “PRI’S THE WORLD.” In its pitch for donations, PRI explains, “Media coverage about issues of special concern to women – such as gender-based violence and women’s economic participation – make… Read More
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An Indiegogo campaign set up by Anonymous to expand its news coverage through a dedicated site, rather than its existing Twitter and Tumblr services, has closed with over $54,798 in crowd-sourced funding. Anonymous launched the project with an initial funding target of $2,000, which the hacktivist collective said will be used to fund parts of the development process and initial hosting…. Read More
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The British blogger Eliot Higgins, who has played an important role in tracing the flow of arms to Syrian rebels through close analysis of video clips posted on YouTube from his living room in England, began an appeal for financial support from readers this week. In a statement explaining his campaign on the crowdfunding Web site Indiegogo,… Read More
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We’ve written about projects like Matter, which used Kickstarter to fund the creation of a new magazine for science writing, and high-profile bloggers like Andrew Sullivan who go directly to readers for financial support — but could a relative unknown in a small town use crowdfunding to build a business covering city hall and other local news? Joey… Read More
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As traditional journalism is forced to redefine its business model, crowdfunding has become an alternative approach for those who want to launch their own projects. As new technologies arise, a growing number of campaigns prove it’s possible to launch a project independently, finding people who are willing to take that extra step (or click) to implement it…. Read More
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The Correspondent, an Amsterdam based start-up striving to launch a news site of quality news, has crowdfunded € 1 Million in 8 Days (approximately $1.3 Million). As announced on the future news sites blog, More than 15,000 participants supported this crowdfunding event which was created by Rob Wijnberg, a Dutch journalist, and Harald Dunnink, founder of Momkai…. Read More
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Michael Shapiro isn’t the sort of person I’d expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He’s a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he’s been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated — in other words, he seems to be on pretty good… Read More
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