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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Homicide Watch

1. September 11, 2012 12:32 PM

   Homicide Watch revs back up

   Kickstarter cash in hand, the site will restart this fall as a student-reporting project

   By Brent Cunningham

   College students who want to learn crime reporting, 21st-century style, from two pioneers of the genre should get their résumés to laura@homicidewatch.org pronto. That would be Laura Amico, of course, who with her husband, Chris, built Homicide Watch DC into a startup sensation in the nation’s capital, and then watched nervously as it nearly fell apart last summer when they...

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2. August 17, 2012 02:58 PM

   The Kickstarter Chronicles

   Watching homicides in DC and a good dam love story in NC

   By Sara Morrison

   Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another meaning to the concept “public interest journalism”; success depends on how intrigued people are by the pitch. From the hugely popular to the barely noticed, CJR’s Kickstarter Chronicles is a look through some of these journalistic proposals. When Chris and...

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3. May 31, 2012 06:50 AM

   WaPo must transform to survive

   Clay Shirky disputes The Audit's take on the Washington Post's financial future

   By Clay Shirky

   Ryan Chittum's "The Washington Post Co.'s Self-Destructive Course" is a blistering attack on the paper's management of its journalistic mission and its economic viability. Chittum examines the financial structure of both the The Washington Post and its parent, the Washington Post Company, most of whose revenue (and all of whose profits) come from Kaplan, the test prep service. Chittum notes...

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