Funding for “open source” journalism
MyDD.com, a website whose bloggers write about grassroots democracy and fact-checking the government (the name stands for “My Direct Democracy”), asked its readers for donations last week to help the site and its blogger/writers continue their lobbying efforts and other work. By Monday, the site said it had raised more than $11,500 from over 140 people. I got the link from another exercise in “open-source” journalism, NewAssignment.net, Jay Rosen’s recent startup, where Kelly Nuxoll wrote an excellent overview of the citizen reporting phenomenon and gave a few examples of what some of the journalists out there are doing in that area.
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