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It's been said that intrepid reporters burn a lot of shoe leather. Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins built a news startup and burned his fair...

The Miami-based Knight Foundation announced today that it will match donations made to some of the best-known news startups, investigative outfits, and nonprofit newsrooms...

During a crowdfunding campaign and before the release of a single issue of Anxy, editors of the magazine shared their own trauma, abusive behavior,...

What started out as an idea over dinner has now raised more than $13,000 for a public newsroom. City Bureau, the Chicago-based journalism lab, was...

As the media industry continues to evolve, news organizations throughout the globe search for new ways to stay in the game. Unfortunately, surviving in a...

The Poynter Institute is on a mission to make your 40 (let’s be honest, it's way more than that) hours a week in the...

There are pretty pictures whose color or composition catch your eye, and then there are pictures with deeper meaning. Real pictures can changes lives...

Through the Cracks has not shied away from saying Kickstarter is important, but it's not the only crowdfunding platform. As I said in a piece...

It's by no means a regular segment on Through the Cracks but every now and then we stop to recognize exceptional pitch videos. They...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McArsARTDUw It didn’t occur to me as possible but when Russia was a communist state, some people still went on vacation. The Soviet Union mandated...