At OpenWatch ( https://openwatch.net https://openwatch.net ) we are trying to solve this very problem from the open-source hacker perspective. Our original pitc

At OpenWatch ( https://openwatch.net https://openwatch.net ) we are trying to solve this very problem from the open-source hacker perspective. Our original pitch was that we would operate on a "freemium" model: offer our journalism tools for free to everyone so they can contribute to the commons, but charge money if you wanted to make your investigations "closed source", similar in a way to GitHub. Our hypothesis / current pitch is that people will pay money (either directly, or on a voluntary subscription basis) to support journalists and the causes they believe in. We are also a collaborative muckraking platform that allows people to get directly involved in the stories they care about by contributing verifiable phone calls, emails, or other primary source material through the platform. We only launched the beta version about a month ago, and are changing like crazy every day, but would love to position ourselves to become somewhat like the GitHub for Journalism in this new age of media. Since all of our content is CC-BY and we stress the importance of the availability of a story's "source code" in the form of primary source documents, we are hoping that in the future people will ask to see a journalist's "OpenWatch Profile" in the same way they ask for a programmer's "GitHub Profile" today.