Ana Marie Cox, the crowdfunding journalist who sought cash from her readers to pay for her closing days covering the McCain campaign, has taken it to the next level: offering a for-pay Twitter feed for on-the-scene dish from McCain HQ tonight.
Only donors who gave more than $100 to her impromptu fund drive get access [...]

An update on Ana Marie Cox’s efforts to crowdfund her campaign-trail reporting: She’s raised $7,000 from her audience (likely more by now). That’s probably not including the $2,000 she got to write down the stretch for The Washington Independent. And in a blow for transparency, she’s started detailing her expenses on the trail, including a [...]

When the magazine Radar announced it was shutting down last Friday, its Washington editor Ana Marie Cox was left with a seat on John McCain’s plane but no one to pay for it.
(If Cox’s name doesn’t ring an immediate bell, you probably know her as the original Wonkette, or at least as the young [...]