David Appell over at Quark Soup has picked up the baton of independent, reader-funded journalism. He is investigating a story on the Sugar Association, the World Health Organization and Congress. He's asking for $250 from readers to report the story on his blog first -- $5 from -40- 50 readers. (A lot more modest than the $10,000 I asked for!)
Dave's a freelance science writer with a good resume and a nice collection of clips. In other words, he's a real journalist. I urge people to support him, since I'm about to put my money where my mouth is and pop him $5. Let's show the world Back-to-Iraq wasn't a one-time stunt.
More independent journalism hits the web
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Quark Soup wants to raise $200 for an investigative article on the Sugar lobby. That's a bargain if I even... Read More
Ok first check out Back to Iraq if ya haven't already. You'll get some real news over there...kinda like the real news we get at Salam's place. He vouches for this dude...he's a science writer (not really my thing) but... Read More
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Hi there! Thanks for stopping in. I'm Christopher Allbritton, former AP and New York Daily News reporter. In 2002, I went stumbling around Iraqi Kurdistan, the northern part of Iraq outside Saddam's direct control, looking for stories. (Some might call it "looking for trouble.") In March 2003, I made it back in time for the war, becoming the Web's first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger. With the support of thousands of readers, we raised almost $15,000. You can read my dispatches here. It was one of the moments in journalism when everything worked. It was a grand -- and successful -- experiment in independent journalism. In 2004, I moved to Iraq, where I would spend the next two years. It was a raucous, scary and exciting place with a lot of news going on. But I've since moved on to Beirut and the wider region. I now report for a variety of outlets.
Thanks for the link to this site, Chris. It’s good to see others trying out the pay for specific reporting model.
If we could get some investigative reporters in Washington DC to do the same thing, maybe the news would be interesting again.