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Tomorrow meets its Kickstarter goal in hours
Former GOOD editors will make their dream mag
By Kira Goldenberg Jun 26, 2012 at 03:03 PM
After GOOD magazine fired most of its editorial staff in early June, the axed staffers decided they wanted to produce... More
Content economics, part 2: payments
How and why people fork over money for media
By Felix Salmon Mar 5, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Apologies for the delay between part 1 and this: I wanted to wait until Amanda Palmer's TED talk appeared... More
Foreign news startup Worldcrunch looks to expand its impact
Kickstarter project would take deep dives into global development issues
By Justin Peters Jun 28, 2013 at 04:57 PM
There's been no shortage of hand-wringing, here and elsewhere, over the decline of foreign coverage in the digital age. With... More
Homicide Watch revs back up
Kickstarter cash in hand, the site will restart this fall as a student-reporting project
By Brent Cunningham Sep 11, 2012 at 12:32 PM
College students who want to learn crime reporting, 21st-century style, from two pioneers of the genre should get their résumés... More
Learning from others’ Kickstarter mistakes
Infographic compares successful projects with those that failed
By Alysia Santo Jun 12, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Journalism professionals, professors, and students are taking their reporting proposals to Kickstarter, and for the past few months I’ve rounded... More
Matter’s Vision for Long-form Journalism
By Felix Salmon Feb 23, 2012 at 07:56 PM
Yesterday morning, a very exciting new journalism project was launched on Kickstarter. It’s called Matter, and it’s going to be... More
ProPublica kickstarts its internship investigation
Investigative journalism site experiments with crowdsourcing and crowdfunding
By Sara Morrison Jun 4, 2013 at 02:50 PM
On May 28, David Dennis wrote in the Guardian that the prevalence of unpaid internships and their increasing role as... More
The Downsides of Crowd-Funding
Wired shows potential limitations of Kickstarter, Emphas.is
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 31, 2011 at 01:15 PM
The March issue of Wired features a lengthy profile of the folks who founded Kickstarter, a site launched in 2009... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Hyperlocal news, jam bands, and how to make a baby
By Alysia Santo Mar 9, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Four decades of mystery, seven deadly sins in Las Vegas, and pro-frack America
By Alysia Santo Mar 16, 2012 at 02:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Open-source robots, David Lynch, and the “Eat More Kale” guy
By Alysia Santo Mar 23, 2012 at 03:39 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Comics journalism, drone aircraft, and a tea partier’s personal tale
By Alysia Santo Apr 6, 2012 at 02:20 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Investigating a mysterious illness, Zelda’s Christian ties, and small-town basketball
By Alysia Santo Apr 13, 2012 at 04:45 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Conflict in Afghanistan, Occupy Brooklyn, and Star Wars figurines
By Alysia Santo Apr 20, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
China’s green technology, a call-girl confesses, and the running world’s Tim Tebow
By Alysia Santo May 4, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Community radio, burning-man culture, and a crowd-funded movie about crowdfunding
By Alysia Santo May 25, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Education in America, My Little Pony’s bronies, and paranormal investigations
By Alysia Santo Jun 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Recycling old interviews, questioning the American dream, and Catholic parents head to Burning Man
By Alysia Santo Jun 22, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
A newspaper funnies funnyman branches out and the other Jersey Shore gets it due
By Sara Morrison Jul 13, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
Two music journos plan a longform site
The duo is running a Kickstarter campaign to finance UNCOOL
By Hazel Sheffield Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Two music journalists from Los Angeles have launched a Kickstarter to fund a reader-supported, ad-free longform site. David Greenwald... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
