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The massive potential game changer for startups that is equity crowdfunding
It’s being called a game changer, a BFD with the chance to give startups and small businesses what they need to grow.
Instead of cool tech,...
From podcast to news network: Canadaland preps for expansion
A podcast made possible one of the biggest media scandals of the last year, more than a dozen allegations of sexual abuse surrounding “Q”...
Pro tip for journalists: Love the storm
Even if you didn’t read Felix Salmon’s downer article or JSK Fellow Mariana Santos’ optimistic rebuttal this week, even if you didn’t dive into #Adviceforyoungjournalists trending nationwide Wednesday, it...
February is Publishing Month at Kickstarter so they’re teaching journalists to crowdfund
The good folks at that little startup we all know called Kickstarter have declared February Publishing Month and to promote crowdfunding as an option...
Seahawks 12th man flies home for Super Bowl
It’s Super Bowl XLIX Sunday and Kickstarter backers have decided to chip in and send Jason Cornwell-Wright of Mexico City back to Seattle.
He’s going...
Blogging and crowdfunding pioneer Andrew Sullivan plans to stop blogging and ‘return to the actual world’
Andrew Sullivan, whose funding model for The Dish is often cited as proof that a journalist can go solo with backing from the crowd,...
Crowdfunding in journalism Twitter training Friday
#EdShift, part of the podcast and media analysis website MediaShift, will host a discussion on Twitter Friday at 1 p.m. EST surrounding crowdfunding in...
Crowdfunding training for journalists planned in 2015
Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will offer crowdfunding workshop in 2015, according to director Micheline Maynard.
The plans for a workshop were...
Google partners with The Onion, Imgur for crowdfunding experiment
Google started “an experiment” to test the crowdfunding waters Thursday with the launch of Contributor by Google.
For a fee of $1-3 users can bypass...
