Your Guide to Crowdfunding Public Media Projects
Need $40,000 to produce a local documentary? Just ask your audience.That's what filmmaker Sam Mayfield did, for a film she's working on about last year's protests in Madison, Wis. In a blog post on January 13, she wrote:
We are curren...
The Public Insight Network, now swimming in data, launches its own reporting unit
American Public Media's nine-year-old Public Insight Network now claims more than 130,000 sources — that is, ordinary folks across America who contribute their personal experiences to PIN's massive database. It's a gold mine for journalists reporting stories about, say, families facing foreclosure in San Diego or business owners deciding when to hire in St. Paul....
Mediatwits #29: Spot.us Acquired; Buffett Buys a Newspaper; Cord Cutters Rising
Welcome to the 29th episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser and Rafat Ali. This week we get back from the Thanksgiving holiday and find some interesting mergers hap...
Bringing a crowd to a records fight: The Columbia Missourian uses Spot.us to raise money for data request
There's a familiar dance any time a newspaper makes a records request to local government. Step 1: Said governmental body says records will cost an exorbitant amount. Step 2: Newspaper counters with the public's right to know. Step 3: Governmental body slightly lowers the cost of the records request. Step 4: Repeat until parties reach...
Live-Blog at RJI: Fellows Share Lessons from Spot.Us, NoozYou
COLUMBIA, MO. -- I am live-blogging from the Reynolds Journalism Institute, which is holding a week-long RJInnovation Week. It's a chance for the Institute to look at an incredible number of projects and ideas that are flowing through the ...
Dan Gillmor Excited by Experiments by Entrepreneurial Journalists
Business content on MediaShift is sponsored by the weekend MA in Public Communication at American University. Designed for working professionals, the program is suited to career changers and public relations or social marketing professi...
A handbook for community-funded journalism: Turning Spot.Us experience into lessons for others
In creating a new system to fund reporting directly by donations from a geographic or online community, Spot.Us broke some of the traditional rules of journalism — namely that reporting is funded through a combination of advertising dollars and subscriptions. That was two years ago, and now a network of individual journalists...
Spot.Us Case Study Shows Impact of Crowdfunding on Journalism
Platforms such as Spot.Us and Kickstarter have shown that crowdfunding can work as a financing mechanism for journalism. We will likely see more crowdfunded stories in the future, which means it's important study how crowdfunding impacts j...
4 Minute Roundup: Google’s Trouble in Europe; WAC vs. Apple
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Can Crowdfunding Work for Narrative Non-Fiction?
In 1978, in the middle of a deep economic recession, an 18 year-old girl named Dolly Freed wrote a book about living in a non-monetary economy called "Possum Living: How to live well without a job and with almost no money." The book...
