San Francisco Postcard from the FJP

June 17 Comments Off Category: Musings

Greetings from the Future Journalism Project. We started filming in San Francisco and made our way around the Bay talking education, business models, journalism practice and journalism’s role in democracy. Here are a few minutes of what we found.

Crowd-Funding the News

August 24 0 Comments Category: Musings

The New York Times Week in Review profiles Spot Us, a non-profit news outfit that seeks community funding to pursue investigative stories. The organization got off the ground with a $340,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to pursue the idea. Crowd-funding has been used by independent record labels and non-profit fund raisers. Let’s see if [...]