Joshua Gillin
May 16, 2013
3:21 pm
Indiegogo.com
While
concerns among some journalists mount concerning interest from Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers over the sale of the Tribune Co., activist group
The Other 98% proposes a different kind of community journalism. They've begun a campaign on Indiegogo.com called Free The Press, which
aims to raise $660 million to "democratize the Tribune Company."
"The only people who are bidding on it right now are infamous right-wing Billionaires, who are likely to pay something around a $660 Million pricetag to control a big slice of trusted news media," the campaign reads. "Instead of sitting back an allowing whichever victor to manipulate us through the media, we've decided to stage an intervention. And we want you to join us."
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Andrew Beaujon
May 6, 2013
11:40 am
Kickstarter |
Current.org |
Baratunde Thurston
Donors to Planet Money's
crowdfunded project to report out the life of a T-shirt have contributed more than five times the amount of cash the program hoped to raise in a Kickstarter campaign. In its pledge, the program says it will:
...Meet the people who grow the cotton, spin the yarn, and cut and sew the fabric. We'll ride on the cargo ships that bring our t-shirt from factories in Bangladesh and Colombia to ports in the US. And we'll examine the crazy tangle of international regulations which govern the t-shirt trade the whole way.
With eight days to go, the NPR show's campaign has raised more than a quarter-million dollars, far beyond the $50,000 goal it set at the project's outset. Donors who pledge $25 will receive a T-shirt, which features a squirrel holding a cocktail.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Mar. 1, 2012
5:32 pm
A Kickstarter project run by two journalists raised $50,000 in just 38 hours last week and has raised a total of $87,297 so far. The goal of the project, called “Matter,” is to “publish a single piece … Read more
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Steve Myers
Nov. 29, 2011
12:38 pm
DigiDave | American Public Media
American Public Media has acquired Spot.Us and will integrate it with its crowdsourcing platform Public Insight Network. The two operations "create a media that is more responsive and responsible to the public’s needs," writes Spot.Us founder David Cohn on his blog.
Cohn tells me by email that at some point, journalists working on a single story could utilize both the crowdfunding and crowdsourcing parts of the operation:
Some people prefer to donate talent, others prefer to donate funds. If a single organization used both PIN/Spot (which will become easier as the two merge at a technical level) they could do create a relationship with the audience that includes both possibilities. We did one early example of this at Spot.Us. We raised funds for an Oakland Tribune reporter to cover potholes in oakland. The money went to the freelancer to do the reporting. But we also got 15 bikers together and we biked in all different directions in Oakland and created a map of the worst potholes we could find (the bikers were donating talent). The result was a well reported story funded by the community along with some insight that only the community could provide (or a single reporter who did a LOT of biking).
One thing will not change, he said: "On Spot.Us, sources cannot donate to a story. ... We may put in a restriction that somebody can donate talent OR funds - but maybe not both."
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Jeff Sonderman
Oct. 21, 2011
2:21 pm
Spot.us
The Columbia Missourian is using crowdfunding site
Spot.us to raise $500 for an open-records request. The newspaper sought a copy of the city of Columbia's parking ticket records, and was told to pay $500 for an outside vendor to convert the "arcane" database into something usable. The Missourian is paying $150, and is asking supporters to pitch in the other $350 (the Missourian is owned by a nonprofit and operated by the University of Missouri School of Journalism, so
money is tight). As of Friday afternoon, 53 people had raised more than $425, leaving the campaign only $75 short of the goal.
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Jeff Sonderman
June 22, 2011
6:58 am
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 28, 2011
6:51 am
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Mallary Jean Tenore
May 25, 2010
4:54 pm
The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit news site that will cover spot news and enterprise stories in the San Francisco Bay Area’s nine counties, launched today.
In preparing for its launch, The Bay Citizen has focused on four key elements … Read more
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Bill Mitchell
Nov. 11, 2009
7:41 am
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Bill Mitchell
Nov. 10, 2009
7:36 am
[UPDATE: Comments by New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt and Spot.Us Director David Cohn have been added to the bottom of this post.]
The New York Times published half of a very good story this morning — Lindsey … Read more
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