Kickstarter has pages and pages of Burning Man-inspired proposals, and while most are raising money to build art installations for the festival, some are looking to fund the documentation of this desert event. Every year, over 50,000 people head to the sands of Nevada to create “Black Rock City,” an experimental society where gifts are used for all transactions and everyone is expected to contribute. Taking My Parents to Burning Man is a film that follows one young man who is bringing his parents along—“the same parents that put me through 13 years of Catholic school and a decade of Jesus camp.” There’s only a few days left before the funding must end; so far there’s been about $9,000 pledged towards the $10,000 goal. (Deadline: June 25, 2:59 a.m.)
The News Frontier
03:00 PM - June 22, 2012
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Recycling old interviews, questioning the American dream, and Catholic parents head to Burning Man
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
