All entries tagged: Joel Kramer
How two nonprofits saw the path to sustainability in 2009
It’s annual report time, and our friends Joel Kramer at MinnPost and John Thornton at Texas Tribune each put out their year-in-review posts this afternoon. (Thornton, who launched in November, called it his 12-week report, but whatever.) There’s a lot to consider beyond just numbers.
While each has had to focus on his own shop’s finances [...]
Nonprofit news organizations form network but bring different priorities
An unprecedented meeting of nonprofit news outlets at the Rockefeller family’s estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., last week may lead to a nationwide network for investigative journalism. But establishing that network may require navigating tensions between established groups seeking to expand their reach and a new crop of local outfits still uncertain about their long-term prospects.
Leading [...]
Reinventing classifieds: MinnPost launches “real-time advertising”
MinnPost, the non-profit news startup in Minneapolis, has rolled out a new form of advertising that looks a little bit like print classifieds, a lot like Twitter, and nothing like traditional marketing on the Internet. They’re calling the service Real-Time Ads, and it’s live in the left column of the front page right now.
The service [...]
Non-profit news outlets deserve a tax exemption for ad revenue
In 2007, I wrote about a sport known as Internet hunting that had been prohibited in 33 states with a national ban pending before Congress. All that, despite the fact that no one actually hunts animals over the Internet. “It’s pretty easy to outlaw something that doesn’t exist,” said a lobbyist for the NRA, which [...]
Joel Kramer: Lessons I’ve learned after a year running MinnPost
[As we mentioned earlier, the next issue of Nieman Reports is almost ready to be unveiled. On Monday, we gave you a sneak peak at one of its articles, by St. Louis Beacon editor Margaret Wolf Freivogel.
We've got one more story to share before the rest of the issue goes online at Nieman Reports' web [...]
MinnPost seeks “micro-sponsors” for blog at $10 and $25 a pop
Readers may never pay for news online, but perhaps they’ll micro-sponsor it.
MinnPost, the non-profit news startup in Minneapolis, has found modest success asking readers to “micro-sponsor” the site’s most popular blog with donation’s of $10 and $25 a pop. Since the appeal began a week ago, 127 people have donated a total of $2,575, which [...]
