Digital News Journalist

“Read this,” I instructed several CUNY J-School students in a recent email. “Read every word of it. He’s talking about you.” I had provided a link to David Carr’s latest Media Equation column, “The Fall and Rise of Media.”

Crowdfunding, while not a tool in the technical sense, may turn out to be an indispensable business tool in the new ecosystem of journalism. While the idea of getting many people to donate small amounts of cash to fund a project is not new — charities do it, political campaigns do it — some forward-thinking journalists and entrepreneurs are starting to apply the same crowdfunding concept to the news.