Lokaljournalismus: Ebay-Erfinder gründet Online-Zeitung

Lokaljournalismus: Ebay-Erfinder gründet Online-Zeitung

Der darbende Lokaljournalismus soll wiederbelebt werden, das hat sich der Ebay Gründer Pierre Omidyar vorgenommen. Sein Rezept zur Rettung: Eine Online-Zeitung, deren besonderes Merkmal die Diskussionsforen sein sollen - ohne anonyme Beiträge. Das Abonnement soll 20 Dollar im Monat kosten.

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Geschäftsmodelle im Journalismus - Spendenfinanzierter Journalismus

Geschäftsmodelle im Journalismus
SpOn zum Funding Journalism

Überall wird gekürzt und gestrichen, entlassen und zusammengelegt - Qualitätsjournalismus ist für viele Verlage kaum noch zu bezahlen. Eine stiftungsfinanzierte Online-Reportage hat nun einen Pulitzerpreis ergattert - ist Mäzenatentum durch große und kleine Spender ein Weg, Medien zu retten?
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The Public Editor One Newspaper, Many Checkbooks

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19pubed.html?_r=1

Rebooting (and Funding) Science Journalism

by David Dobbs

At the ScienceOnline 2010 conference next month, I'm going to be on a panel about "Rebooting Science Journaiism," in which I'll join Carl Zimmer, Ed Yong, and John Timmer in pondering the future of science journalism. God knows what will come of it, as none of us have the sure answers. But that session, as well as the entanglement of my own future with that of science journalism, has me focused on the subject. And two recent online discussions about it have piqued my interest.

One was the reaction, on a science writer's email-list I'm on, to a recent Poynter interview with Times science writer Natalie Angier, in which she said

It's basically going out of existence.

I can't quote directly from the email list, since it's a closed forum and meant to be private. But suffice to say this interview created a bit of stir there and elsewhere among science writers. Some seemed to feel that if so well-placed a colleague as Angier was feeling the heat (as well she might, given the layoffs recently at the Times), then things were bad indeed. A couple wondered if this was news to her, and if so, where she'd been the last ten years or so. (The answer: Busy writing to good effect and pay.) The most common reaction was to lament the layoffs and disappearance of science coverage in so many daily newspapers and elsewhere.

Welcome to Funding Journalism: Huffington Post Investigative Fund

Der Huffington Post Investigative Fund (I-Fund) ist seit 28. August 2009 aktiv. Wie maiak und das gemeinsame Vorbild ProPublica finanziert auch der I-Fund mit so genanntem Funding Journalism aufwändige Hintergrundbeiträge über Politik und Wirtschaft, die sich die Medien nicht mehr leisten können oder wollen.

http://www.maiak.info/welcome-huffington-post-investigative-fund

birth of funding journalism

Near the end of January, in the newsroom at Newsday, the Long Island daily paper serving 377,000 subscribers, a reporter asked a question of his publisher. Three months prior, the company established a pay-wall on its Web site, newsday.com. The reporter wanted to know how many people ponied up the $260 annual fee for total access.

The publisher, Terry Jimenez, didn’t know, so he asked someone who did. The answer was 35. Thirty-five people had signed up for the online service.

To clarify, Newsday is owned by Cablevision, a cable television company that also provides cable internet. Anyone who subscribes to Cablevision’s broadband internet also receives total access to newsday.com. Additionally, anyone who receives the print version of Newsday also has access to the Web site.

Bloggers were quick to make note of the low pickup rate. “Newsday’s Pay Wall Experiment Yields Disappointing Results,” read Drew Grant’s headline on the FishbowlNY blog. “No matter how you try to sugarcoat it, trying to make people pay for online news content isn’t easy,” Grant wrote.

http://mentalmunition.blogspot.com/2010/02/thirty-five-is-greater-than-zero-but.html

Anfänge und Chancen des Funding Journalism

Message: Anfänge und Chancen des Funding Journalism

Non-profit Groups Financing Independent Journalism

A rise in the number of non-profit organizations funding journalism projects is changing how newsrooms gather independent content. Two media experts discuss the shift in foreign and investigative reporting.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june08/mediamodel_06-24.html