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Kachingle: A route to revenue through community crowd-funding

Saturday, March 20, 2010

In the new, revenue-shy era of online publishing, knowledgeable “amateurs” and self-employed journalists like me publish (theoretically) on an equal footing with Big Media. Hyperlocal sites are providing tiny communities and large towns with real, connected online news; expert, lay commentators on everything from sport to fishing are giving away the kind of insight and [...]

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Is News Over? City University journalism chief George Brock says journalists should accept changed world

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Update: Watch the whole video at this link (not embeddable, unfortunately). Journalists still have a vital role to play in society as independent, informed, editors, finders and defenders of facts. No amount of algorithmic authority will change the vital role of reporters to hold authority to account. All that’s according to George Brock, the recently-installed [...]

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