How one freelancer jumped from anonymity to The New York Times
In 2010, when Gaby Dunn (@GabyDunn on Twitter) moved to New York, she had big ambitions but few contacts in the journalism business. So the Emerson College grad created the 100 Interviews Project, a Tumblr blog in which she interviewed 100 people she knew existed but had never met before over the course of a year. She in…
#Realtalk from Ann Friedman: Editors are your most important relationship
Ann Friedman was executive editor of GOOD until last summer, when GOOD’s cofounders famously laid off the site’s editorial staff. Friedman and several other former GOOD staffers launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Tomorrow, a collaborative journalism project to create a single-issue magazine.
Wi…
Narratively’s Noah Rosenberg on monetizing long-form journalism
While many newspapers have cut back on long-form journalism due to shrinking page counts and budgets, stories running thousands of words are finding a home online thanks in part to platforms like Longreads and Narratively.
Last summer, a group of New York City journalists led by Noah Rosenberg raised over $50,000 o…
A la carte journalism: can CrowdNe.ws be the iTunes of articles?
Newspaper paywalls have gotten a lot of attention recently, with The New York Times tweaking its paywall and others, including the Seattle Times and Washington Post, jumping on the bandwagon. But it’s not the only way that publications can charge readers for online content. If digital subscriptions are the news…