British blogger Brown Moses, also known as Eliot Higgins, has become a leading source of fact-checked information about military activity in Syria and elsewhere, despite having no journalistic training. And now… Read more »
Beacon Reader, a platform through which supporters can crowdfund journalists, has launched a new feature that allows readers to back a specific topic such as climate change, with contributions split among… Read more »
Journalists and readers who want to support and collaborate with journalists can sign up for one of two new levels of paid membership in Contributoria, a crowdfunding platform backed by Guardian… Read more »
Quibb, a startup that offers an exclusive content-sharing network for professional users, is experimenting with crowdfunding via an Alphaworks widget that allows users to join in a VC round directly from… Read more »
The backlash to the acquisition of Oculus VR by Facebook — from backers who had helped finance the startup on Kickstarter — says a lot about the personal and emotional connection… Read more »
The founders of Inkshares don’t think the traditional publishing industry is broken, just antiquated and inefficient — and they think marrying crowdfunding and the kinds of services publishers used to offer… Read more »
Contributoria, a new site backed by Guardian Media Group, is an attempt to build an open community that allows journalists to collaborate on and crowdfund high-quality journalism. Co-founders Matt McAlister and… Read more »
One of the most spectacularly successful crowdfunded journalism startups is a website based in Holland called De Correspondent, which has raised more than $1.7M and has almost 25,000 subscribers Read more »
Before designers and entrepreneurs spend all their savings making a product idea come to life, crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo allow them to test the demand for their product and even develop… Read more »
Wattpad, which has built a social network for aspiring authors that allows them to build a fan base around their writing, has launched a crowdfunding feature to make it easier for… Read more »