Tagged: freedom of the press foundation

May 10, 2013 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

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… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 2:42 pm By Greg Mitchell, The Nation  |  

A new group, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which seemed to come out of nowhere, has hit the ground running—within a day of its launching, just yesterday. It’s already named the first four organizations to gain fundings (WikiLeaks and three others), drawn wide coverage (from The… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 6:48 am By GigaOm  |  

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… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 2:34 am By Guardian  |  

Two years ago this month, the major online payment systems – Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and more – cut off one of the world’s most famous journalism organizations from the public. They stopped taking payments on behalf of WikiLeaks and, in the process, highlighted one of the most dangerous threats… Read More