Comments on: Crowdfunding Journalism http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/13/crowdfunding-journalism/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rupert Murdoch raille les pleurnicheries de la presse écrite « everybooks http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/13/crowdfunding-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-2787 Rupert Murdoch raille les pleurnicheries de la presse écrite « everybooks Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:22:10 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1544#comment-2787 [...] qu’il y a eu un véritable consentement mutuel sur le fait… de se revoir dans 6 mois ! Pour Dan Gillmor, auteur du best-seller We The Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, autrement [...] [...] qu’il y a eu un véritable consentement mutuel sur le fait… de se revoir dans 6 mois ! Pour Dan Gillmor, auteur du best-seller We The Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, autrement [...]

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/13/crowdfunding-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-2786 Jon Garfunkel Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:42:41 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1544#comment-2786 Mark, Good piece, as always. I like Simon's comment: "What is paying a subscription for the NY Times but crowdsourcing (with extra ad revenue thrown in just like Jim Hopkins has on his blog) at a large enough scale to pay for really good reporting at the local and national scale?" As per when crowdsourcing works, it is no different than fundraising-- either a crisis is needed (covering a war, presidential election), or sheer reputation (Sullivan & Marshall). Of course, transparency cuts both ways -- we can now ask, did Ana Marie Cox do $7000 of reporting? (Maybe a private Twitter feed could be a unique value add.) Kudos for Hopkins for his revenue model. Public companies need public watchdogs. Jon Mark,

Good piece, as always. I like Simon’s comment: “What is paying a subscription for the NY Times but crowdsourcing (with extra ad revenue thrown in just like Jim Hopkins has on his blog) at a large enough scale to pay for really good reporting at the local and national scale?”

As per when crowdsourcing works, it is no different than fundraising– either a crisis is needed (covering a war, presidential election), or sheer reputation (Sullivan & Marshall). Of course, transparency cuts both ways — we can now ask, did Ana Marie Cox do $7000 of reporting? (Maybe a private Twitter feed could be a unique value add.)

Kudos for Hopkins for his revenue model. Public companies need public watchdogs.

Jon

]]> By: Mark Glaser http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/13/crowdfunding-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-2785 Mark Glaser Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:17:59 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1544#comment-2785 Hey Seth, I think "no it doesn't work" is totally possible. I think it will probably work in some cases and not in others. I doubt very seriously it will save journalism on its own, but that and all the other experiments in business models need to be tried. Better to try and fail then to just keep complaining about the gushing blood all the time... Cheers, Mark Hey Seth,
I think “no it doesn’t work” is totally possible. I think it will probably work in some cases and not in others. I doubt very seriously it will save journalism on its own, but that and all the other experiments in business models need to be tried. Better to try and fail then to just keep complaining about the gushing blood all the time…
Cheers,
Mark

]]> By: Mark http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/13/crowdfunding-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-2784 Mark Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:53:48 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1544#comment-2784 good question (as a crowdfunded journalist working out of Galveston, I hope so =) good question (as a crowdfunded journalist working out of Galveston, I hope so =)

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2008/11/13/crowdfunding-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-2783 Seth Finkelstein Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:52:19 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/?p=1544#comment-2783 Serious question: Would "No, it doesn't work" <em>ever</em> be accepted as an answer? [Tedious: By "No, it doesn't work", I don't mean "can small projects be done to give a talking-point?", of course they can. I mean more like "it's a bandaid over a gushing chest wound".] Serious question: Would “No, it doesn’t work” ever be accepted as an answer?

[Tedious: By "No, it doesn't work", I don't mean "can small projects be done to give a talking-point?", of course they can. I mean more like "it's a bandaid over a gushing chest wound".]

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