“They said: ‘We don’t have a CRM. We have a plugin that manages who’s paid, and we have Mailchimp to email people.’ Honestly, that moment when they said ‘send us a CSV,’ we realized this was nuts.”
Projects, which should be related to local news or revenue generation, can receive up to $300,000 in funding. As in Europe, the launch comes with talk of government regulation in the air.
To choose its newest place of focus, the nonprofit education network asked supporters to nominate their own cities — and to help find local funders long before launch.
$660,000 to support a 50-member network will go to Solutions Journalism Network and Report for America for one year from a trio of place-based foundations.
Being a Quartz Member ($100/year) will now be required for access to all of its stories — one more case of a quality publisher finding that advertising revenue isn’t enough to allow a readership without limits.
Schmidt, Christine. "Quartz, built on free distribution, has put its articles behind a paywall." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 13 May. 2019. Web. 19 Jul. 2019.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2019, May. 13). Quartz, built on free distribution, has put its articles behind a paywall. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 19, 2019, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/05/quartz-built-on-free-distribution-has-put-its-articles-behind-a-paywall/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "Quartz, built on free distribution, has put its articles behind a paywall." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 13, 2019. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/05/quartz-built-on-free-distribution-has-put-its-articles-behind-a-paywall/.
Wikipedia
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