The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism recently assumed the editorial leadership NYTimes.com’s The Local community web site, which covers the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
The plan is to build on The Times’ work, which first launched in the spring 2009, and to make it more scalable, generating greater [...]
“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.