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1. June 26, 2012 03:03 PM

   Tomorrow meets its Kickstarter goal in hours

   Former GOOD editors will make their dream mag

   By Kira Goldenberg

   After GOOD magazine fired most of its editorial staff in early June, the axed staffers decided they wanted to produce one more magazine issue together. The eight friends turned to Kickstarter to fund Tomorrow, described in their pitch as “a one-shot magazine about creative destruction.” The Kickstarter went live on Monday. It met its $15,000 goal in less than five...

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2. 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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3. June 12, 2012 03:00 PM

   Learning from others’ Kickstarter mistakes

   Infographic compares successful projects with those that failed

   By Alysia Santo

   Journalism professionals, professors, and students are taking their reporting proposals to Kickstarter, and for the past few months I’ve rounded up some of these projects for a recurring feature called The Kickstarter Chronicles. As the media industry continues to test new funding models, some teams and individuals have had tremendous success with crowdfunding, raising tens of thousands for documentaries, Web...

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4. February 23, 2012 07:56 PM

   Matter’s Vision for Long-form Journalism

   By Felix Salmon

   Yesterday morning, a very exciting new journalism project was launched on Kickstarter. It’s called Matter, and it’s going to be home to long-form investigative narrative journalism about science and technology. “No cheap reviews, no snarky opinion pieces, no top ten lists,” they promise. “Just one unmissable story.” They hit a nerve: as I write this, some 31 hours after the...

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5. March 31, 2011 01:15 PM

   The Downsides of Crowd-Funding

   Wired shows potential limitations of Kickstarter, Emphas.is

   By Lauren Kirchner

   The March issue of Wired features a lengthy profile of the folks who founded Kickstarter, a site launched in 2009 to help inventors and artists of all kinds raise money for projects, little by little. It’s simple to use, and growing in popularity; the site now successfully raises about $1 million a week for the luckiest fundraisers. A Raw File...

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6. March 9, 2012 10:49 AM

   The Kickstarter Chronicles

   Hyperlocal news, jam bands, and how to make a baby

   By Alysia Santo

   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 weekly look through some of these journalistic proposals. Project of...

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7. March 16, 2012 02:00 PM

   The Kickstarter Chronicles

   Four decades of mystery, seven deadly sins in Las Vegas, and pro-frack America

   By Alysia Santo

   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 weekly look through some of these journalistic proposals. Project of...

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8. March 23, 2012 03:39 PM

   The Kickstarter Chronicles

   Open-source robots, David Lynch, and the “Eat More Kale” guy

   By Alysia Santo

   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 weekly look through some of these journalistic proposals. Project of...

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9. April 6, 2012 02:20 PM

   The Kickstarter Chronicles

   Comics journalism, drone aircraft, and a tea partier’s personal tale

   By Alysia Santo

   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 weekly look through some of these journalistic proposals. Project of...

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10. April 13, 2012 04:45 PM

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    Investigating a mysterious illness, Zelda's Christian ties, and small-town basketball

    By Alysia Santo

    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 weekly look through some of these journalistic proposals. Project of...

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11. April 20, 2012 12:03 PM

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    Conflict in Afghanistan, Occupy Brooklyn, and Star Wars figurines

    By Alysia Santo

    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 weekly look through some of these journalistic proposals. Project of...

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12. May 4, 2012 03:00 PM

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    China’s green technology, a call-girl confesses, and the running world’s Tim Tebow

    By Alysia Santo

    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. Project of the...

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13. May 25, 2012 03:00 PM

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    Community radio, burning-man culture, and a crowd-funded movie about crowdfunding

    By Alysia Santo

    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. Project of the...

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14. June 8, 2012 06:50 AM

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    Education in America, My Little Pony’s bronies, and paranormal investigations

    By Alysia Santo

    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. Project of the...

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15. June 22, 2012 03:00 PM

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    Recycling old interviews, questioning the American dream, and Catholic parents head to Burning Man

    By Alysia Santo

    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. Project of the...

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16. July 13, 2012 11:18 AM

    The Kickstarter Chronicles

    A newspaper funnies funnyman branches out and the other Jersey Shore gets it due

    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. "A bazillion internet...

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17. November 14, 2012 11:00 AM

    Two music journos plan a longform site

    The duo is running a Kickstarter campaign to finance UNCOOL

    By Hazel Sheffield

    Two music journalists from Los Angeles have launched a Kickstarter to fund a reader-supported, ad-free longform site. David Greenwald (Billboard, GQ) and Daniel Siegal (Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times) are behind UNCOOL, which landed on Kickstarter on November 8 and is seeking $54,000 by January to make the project happen. “This is more about the fact that there...

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