Media News - Thursday, November 12, 2009
New York Times publishes ‘crowd-funded’ article
The science section of The New York Times contained an
unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage
patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a
freelance journalist whose expenses were paid by hundreds of donors in
an experiment in "crowd-funded" journalism.
The travel expenses for journalist Lindsey Hoshaw's trip were raised
through Spot.Us, which describes itself as a "nonprofit project to
pioneer 'community funded' reporting." Spot.Us, according to its website, allows the public to "commission
investigations with tax deductible donations for important and perhaps
overlooked stories. The website lists 6,000 dollars in donations for the Pacific garbage
patch story from more than 100 people. Among the listed donors are Web luminaries such as Craig Newmark, the
founder of classified site Craigslist, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales,
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and others. Spot.Us is a project of the Center for Media Change, a San
Francisco-based non-profit. (AFP)
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