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Links of the Week on Twitter
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been ramping up our use of Twitter to share interesting links, promote our work, interact with readers, and collaborate on reporting. Consider following us over there...
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Seeking fundraising help from the pros: Where ProPublica is turning
A frequently misunderstood aspect of nonprofits is the idea that fundraising is somehow a tin-cup substitute for a smart business plan. That misunderstanding gained traction in some circles a couple of...
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ProPublica fundraising adviser manages expectations
You might expect the fundraising consultant just hired by ProPublica to be optimistic, if not ebullient, about prospects for a tech-savvy, grassroots campaign to help sustain the nonprofit financially...
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The iPad business model for news: Strategies publishers must embrace
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in the journosphere about what newspapers ought to be doing vis-a-vis the iPad. If publishers adopt their usual defensive stance and take a slow approach, they’ll...
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John Thornton: Nonprofit news outlets will be a bigger part of our future...
[Yesterday, Alan Mutter wrote a post detailing why he thinks nonprofit news outlets “can’t possibly save news.” An interesting discussion ensued in the comments (including contributions from Jay Rosen,...
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What makes a nonprofit news org “legit”? Here’s one six-fold path
Back in February, I posted an essay in this space posing the question: What makes a nonprofit news organization legitimate? It’s a question that nonprofits and their critics have been wrestling with...
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Why ProPublica is publishing web ads — and what that means for the nonprofit...
Check out ProPublica’s website today, and you might notice — along with blog posts, donation buttons, links to special projects, and the kind of deep-dive investigative journalism that the nonprofit...
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1,900 copies: How a top-selling Kindle Single is generating new audiences for...
Listing the eight big trends journalism will see over the next year, Josh highlighted the increasing role that the singles model will play in the news. He was talking about the disaggregation of the...
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The cost of ProPublica’s latest Kindle Single? $0.00
I wrote a couple weeks ago about ProPublica’s experiment with the Kindle Single format of story distribution. The sales of “Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story” seemed to offer some...
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ProPublica gets $1.9 million from Knight to expand its efforts in data...
ProPublica is getting a $1.9 million data journalism grant from the Knight Foundation, the nonprofits jointly announced on Wednesday. The money will be used to support ProPublica’s News Applications...
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ProPublica introduces a magazine to reach new readers on mobile
ProPublica wants to get in the magazine business. The investigative news nonprofit is launching a monthly digital magazine for iOS devices that will collect the best of its reporting on current topics...
View ArticleProPublica opens up shop with a new site to sell custom datasets
Data is at the heart of much of ProPublica’s reporting. So why not try to find a new way to make money off of your franchise? With the launch of the ProPublica Data Store, the nonprofit is trying to...
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Upworthy partners with ProPublica and advocacy media groups on original content
When Upworthy raised an additional $8 million in September of last year, they wrote a blog post thanking their readers and making them a promise. The new funds, they wrote, will “help us branch out...
View ArticleHow can journalists measure the impact of their work? Notes toward a model of...
You know that old “If I had a nickel” saying? Well, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard the word “impact” — and impacting, impactful, impacted, high impact, etc. — since I joined the Center for...
View ArticleProPublica sees $30,000 in new revenue from Data Store
Just five months after opening up its Data Store — which sells some of the big datasets its reporters produce for stories and projects — ProPublica says it’s generated “well over” $30,000 in new...
View ArticleAfter Trump’s win, news organizations see a bump in subscriptions and donations
As election results came in last Tuesday night, ProPublica started seeing a big increase in donations. In the first days after Donald Trump was elected, ProPublica’s donations were “running at about 10...
View ArticleHow not to be a parachute partner: ProPublica’s figured out how to...
Eight months into its first year, ProPublica’s local reporting network has helped: a radio reporter in Orlando survey first responders about PTSD; a newspaper reporter in southern Illinois scrutinize...
View ArticleProPublica and The Texas Tribune are teaming up on a full-time, Texas-focused...
ProPublica has funded or collaborated on investigative news reporting with well over 100 other outlets, and launched it its first state-level expansion in Illinois in 2017. But the partnership it...
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