2009-06-03
BRUSSELS - Crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, online marketplaces, monetizing, … Vocabulary to survive digitization. How professional journalism could escape sudden death. Beamsup, Iamnews, Associated Content, Contenture, Publish2, Global For Media and Spot.us are experimenting with new models.
Beamups - Global News Marketplace
The online news marketplace Beamups allows producers to sell on unused and archive content.
The Guardian about Beamups
Editorsweblog about Beamups - news equivalent of eBay
Iamnews - Open Newsroom Platform
A tool for publishers to crowdsource news content and a place for contributors to get exposure.
Iamnews enables small publishers with limited resources, like bloggers, to collaborate with reporters and photographers around the world, CEO Nir Ofir told Beet.tv. "Today’s media brands are buying news from AP and Reuters. What we want is for them to buy news from us."
Associated Content - Online Publisher and Distributor
Associated Content is a platform that enables everyone to publish their content in any format (text, video, audio, images) on any topic and then distributes.
Contenture - Internet-Wide Micropayment System
Contenture helps you monetize your content with a revolutionary new micropayment system.
Techcrunch about Contenture
Publish2 - Link Journalism
Publish2, a site and application developed to promote 'link journalism' in newsrooms, believes in the collaborative efforts of journalists from rival publications. A site that promotes 'collaboration, not collusion'.
Journalism.co.uk about Publish2
GlobalFM.com - Community Funded Reporting
Global For Me is a platform that lets anybody become a commissioning editor and choose a theme or topic to be researched by a journalist.
Killerstartups about GlobalFM.com
Spot.us - Community Funded Reporting
An open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting.” Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories.
Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo.
David Cohn, founder of Spot.us, reflects on what he's learned half a year since its’ launch
Written by Karel Platteau, Mediakritiek.be
