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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?

Community-funded reporting: bringing a new transparency to journalism

It was only 10 months ago that Spot.Us was launched, an experiment to fund journalism through crowdfunding. Now Australia’s Foundation for Public Interest Journalism is looking to copy the community funded journalism model, writes Spot.Us founder David Cohn.