Online Journalism: Donations Accepted

Business Week by Douglas MacMillan | Dec. 25, 2008 (Special Report)
Amid traditional media's bloodletting, nonprofit news outfits like Spot.Us are experimenting with community-funded journalism on the Web

A growing number of entrepreneurs and journalism advocates around the country are experimenting with a new type of business model for news: community-funded online journalism. Full Story »

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 by Fred Gatlin - Dec. 25, 2008

This article discusses one possible solution to the current decline in news sources. It limits itself to discussing one issue. However, the article does not include any concerns. Deciding stories placed on a site by the number of financial gifts has a serious downside.

Perhaps if newspapers were owned locally, they would be of more of interest to readers and advertisers.

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