Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE

Articles tagged crowdfunding (61)

Also see results from other Nieman sites
“It’s not just about the idea, it’s about how you develop the sustainability of something as well.”
The platform Beacon will match the first $500,000 Vargas can raise to support #EmergingUS, a news site that “lives at the intersection of race, immigration, and identity in a multicultural America.”
“What Rolltape represents to me is an attempt to carve out a whole new digital space that requests a completely different kind of social interaction: sincerely, thoughtfully, slowly.”
“My job is to take the money this company gives me to operate the newsroom, and do the best possible job I can of telling stories of the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California.”
Two years ago, Beacon was focused on recurring payments and exclusive access. But it turns out that most donors prefer one-time payments and want the projects they fund to be widely available.
MuckRock is also debuting project pages that will highlight groups of FOIA requests and let users follow specific stories.
American Public Media has decided that Spot.us doesn’t work any more in today’s crowdfunding environment. But they also investigated what does — and laid out a model for others to use.