Can crowdfunding help produce another WikiLeaks or Pentagon Papers?

There have been a number of interesting experiments in crowdfunding journalism recently, including topic-specific projects like Syria Deeply and the science journalism of Matter (a magazine co-founded by my former GigaOM colleague Bobbie Johnson) and donations help support other players such as ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. But could the crowdfunding approach be used to help an entire category of public-service investigative journalism such as WikiLeaks and its ilk? The founders of the Freedom of the Press Foundation — a group that includes legendary “Pentagon Papers” whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg and internet veteran John Perry Barlow, among others — are betting that it can.

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