Non-paying today....
Anne Holland has a very nice plug for Correspondences.org, the civic journalism site that Howard Greenstein, Peter Shaplen, Gary Bolles and I have launched. She says it's non-paying, but we believe that a civic journalism can also become a basis for at least part of a living. It is important to remember that a living was assembled from a variety of vocations and avocations as recently as a century ago, and that the specialized journalism that divorced the writer/reporter from the subject of the story has created a suckhole of vanity that is destroying the news business. So, while we may not pay today, like OhMyNews, we hope to develop enough revenue at the site (yes, breaking even would be nice first, as it is coming out of my pocket right now) so that we can eventually pay reporters for their contributions.
Thing is, we have to create the basic need for direct reporting first. So, drop by, sign up to cover your local community or an area of expertise you have. Do your bit to screw with reality.
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at June 16, 2003 09:46 AM | TrackBack