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[sbriggman]

Read the full article here: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/policyso ... nding.html

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is collaborating with UK news enterprise The Guardian to highlight and amplify independent journalism projects trying to get off the ground. Kickstarter has created a new category on their site dedicated to crowdfunding journalistic efforts. Past journalism-focused efforts have not had an accurate category to be placed in, decreasing their potential reach to funders.

Pretty cool!

[ParisHeather]

As a journalist, I think this *could* be a great idea...except that I worry only celebrity news will ever get attention. That's why news organizations like NPR are publicly funded...those pledge drives are the original crowdfunding!

[sbriggman]

@paris Very true! I hope that the journalism section will help more stories see the light of day on issues that people care about. I could see the reddit community rallying around particular stories that they want to see unearthed, similar to the way there were so many supporters of Wikileaks.