Journo stuff collected on 04/17/2015

• The Big Issue South Africa » “I lost the primary thing that held meaning to me for my adult life”

  “By Mark O’Brien for Contributoria

  An interview with an activist who spent 16 years in a radical left-wing organisation that he now views as a political cult”

  tags: journalism contributoria syndication bigussue south africa

• Spotimap – An interactive map of songs about cities

  tags: journalism music map

• Beacon’s new plan: Let news orgs do collective crowdfunding – Through the Cracks: Crowdfunding in Journalism

  “All members of the Investigative News Network (INN), the campaigns appear together on INN’s Spotlight page, a first for Beacon Reader, according to company cofounder Dan Fletcher.

  Like Kickstarter’s curated pages, Beacon’s Spotlight pages will give organizations and advocacy groups the ability to showcase campaigns by members of their organization or projects they support.”

  tags: journalism community knight beacon crowdfunding

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