Tagged: journalism

May 14, 2013 @ 11:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

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… Read More

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

May 7, 2013 @ 3:10 pm By Paid Content  |  

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… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 3:03 am By Palate Press  |  

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… Read More

April 26, 2013 @ 6:58 am By PolicyMic  |  

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…. Read More

April 3, 2013 @ 6:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

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… Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 10:48 am By TechCrunch  |  

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 —… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 9:53 am By Marianne McCarthy, MediaShift  |  

Crowdfunding has skyrocketed in the past couple of years as entrepreneurs bypass traditional keepers of the purse and instead appeal to individual donors to help get their projects off the ground — and journalists have taken notice. Dogged by a lack of jobs and slumping… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 5:12 pm By Forbes  |  

Matter is a success story that illustrates how the new economy is shaping up. Fine, but with a lot of emphasis on work-in-progress. We’ve known for a while that the tech community does things differently – would we have had collaboration software without the open source movement?… 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

December 7, 2012 @ 3:14 pm By Leonhard Dobusch  |  

Staff Translation Krautreporter: Crowdfunding-Plattform for journalism By Leonhard Dobusch The journalists Sebastian Esser and Wendelin Hübner have launched today a beta version of the project “Krautreporter”. The goal of the platform is to establish Crowdfunding for journalism in German speaking countries. A nice video is available at the start of… Read More

November 12, 2012 @ 2:21 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Whether through foundations, crowdfunding or financial transaction systems such as flatter or kachingle, these all are models showing how journalism can be financed going forward. Two years ago this was a topic of discussion at the local committee of the German Journalism Association… Read More

November 5, 2012 @ 6:13 am By JD Alois  |  

  Mosireen, a media collective in downtown Cairo that offers equipment and training to citizen journalists, was born out of the effort by activists to document the Egyptian revolution online. As the group’s mission statement says, that was vital during the street protests that drove… Read More