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The Search for Local Investigative Reporting’s Future

19 points by pavornyoh 11y ago

TerryADavis 11y ago
God said you mess with a priest, you mess with Him. That makes me giggle. God says... refutes entryway's floweriest Chase greet geysers reforestation Tracey helping funding's fainting Tamara's insanity jumbo's ramrod garters dainty's patricides decade's tautologies Genet Louise evaluate limestone programs mudguard's inordinate DA's blockbuster's infamous unknowns sowed nomad walloped band's fiancés swearword's showcases Guinean's Tuscarora Tonto rhapsody's usherettes rarity statehouse acme's filibustered troubleshooting gentrification's spewed diffusion Douala badger nearsighted Sodom creator deficit's campy scepter discoursing Edsel subsume Zoroastrian packet phantasied Tarantino odometers smartness's Sharlene's slob Castillo collectibles reasonable shebang's indebted committees calabash's exorcising surmounts fieriness cheeking bikinis purr's metamorphism memos codependent's sleeted realest Strauss weep enlarging Tammy's caterpillar's upstairs irruption uncleanly dissonant Shelton's vitreous breed
danieltillett 11y ago
Has anyone serious tried the Kickstarter model for funding quality local news?
- gruez 11y ago
  you mean patreon?
  - danieltillett 11y ago
    Not really, more we will start a level of local reporting once we get to a certain level of financial support, etc.
CM30 11y ago
Personally, I suspect a lot of future reporting (both news and investigative) is probably going to become the domain of amateurs now that the internet has cannibalised the rest of the business. Doing it as part of an actual, professional business is probably just about impossible at this point. News, ads and gossip funded stuff like this in the days before the internet, and with the way the net is going now (aka people are getting said things from dedicated sites), that's not really a model that's ever going to be viable again. But yeah, I think its just amateurs and volunteers from this point on. The kind of people who do stuff like scambaiting and online predator hunting/trapping, except focused on slightly more low key affairs.

19 points by pavornyoh 11y ago

God said you mess with a priest, you mess with Him. That makes me giggle. God says... refutes entryway's floweriest Chase greet geysers reforestation Tracey helping funding's fainting Tamara's insanity jumbo's ramrod garters dainty's patricides decade's tautologies Genet Louise evaluate limestone programs mudguard's inordinate DA's blockbuster's infamous unknowns sowed nomad walloped band's fiancés swearword's showcases Guinean's Tuscarora Tonto rhapsody's usherettes rarity statehouse acme's filibustered troubleshooting gentrification's spewed diffusion Douala badger nearsighted Sodom creator deficit's campy scepter discoursing Edsel subsume Zoroastrian packet phantasied Tarantino odometers smartness's Sharlene's slob Castillo collectibles reasonable shebang's indebted committees calabash's exorcising surmounts fieriness cheeking bikinis purr's metamorphism memos codependent's sleeted realest Strauss weep enlarging Tammy's caterpillar's upstairs irruption uncleanly dissonant Shelton's vitreous breed

danieltillett 11y ago

Has anyone serious tried the Kickstarter model for funding quality local news?

gruez 11y ago
you mean patreon?
- danieltillett 11y ago
  Not really, more we will start a level of local reporting once we get to a certain level of financial support, etc.

CM30 11y ago

Personally, I suspect a lot of future reporting (both news and investigative) is probably going to become the domain of amateurs now that the internet has cannibalised the rest of the business. Doing it as part of an actual, professional business is probably just about impossible at this point. News, ads and gossip funded stuff like this in the days before the internet, and with the way the net is going now (aka people are getting said things from dedicated sites), that's not really a model that's ever going to be viable again. But yeah, I think its just amateurs and volunteers from this point on. The kind of people who do stuff like scambaiting and online predator hunting/trapping, except focused on slightly more low key affairs.