http://www.ojr.org/p1795/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=p1795 Focusing on the future of digital journalism Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ojr.org/p1795/#comment-2124 Fons Tuinstra Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:45:36 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1795#comment-2124 I think you are head-on with your observation. Too long journalists and media organizations have been looking at each other for revenue models and it is time to look beyond that.
Just before the summer I have started to organize the journalists working at the WageIndicator (www.wageindicator.org), a non-profit organization focusing on collecting data on salaries and work-related issues. They are now active in 46 countries and our target is to set up vertical portals focusing on wages. They need to get attention from a larger audience, because getting salary surveys in is their bread and butter. And they decided to go into the news-business themselves, in stead of relying only on traditional media on a death row.
We are very early in the process and guiding a worldwide operation with journalists that have roots in traditional media is a challenge. But things are going well and for 2010 an expansion is planned. We have applied for a News Challenge grant of the Knight Foundation and will need to use part of our creativity for this new business model for journalists: raising money for a NGO.

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