ProPublica goes privateObviously crowd funding and philanthropy doesn’t pay for everything, with independent journalism website ProPublica announcing it will now accept paid advertisers. Richard Tofel explains how and exactly why they are taking the advertising route.
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Pulitzer Prize winners announced
The winners of journalism’s most coveted gongs have been announced: The Washington Post won the most awards, while investigative outfit ProPublica clocked up one for online journalism with a nod for its excellent expose on New Orleans hospitals post-Katrina.
Collaboration: is it the future of investigative journalism?
On Sunday, The New York Times published a gripping 13,000 word investigative article on Hurricane Katrina. With a value of $US400,000 could it have been written without the help of not-for-profits?
AP to distribute nonprofits’ investigative journalism
The Associated Press will deliver work by four nonprofit investigative journalism organisations as part of their service, expanding the groups’ audiences and plugging a content and staffing gap for the wire service.
ProPublica frees ethics information for the Internet age
ProPublica has taken it upon itself to obtain and scrutinise the Obama administration members’ financial and ethical disclosure forms.
