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Journo crowdfunding campaigns

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In the past, we’ve called them The Big 3.


They hold the distinction of being, as far as we can discern, the only crowdfunding campaigns to raise more than a million euros in seed money for news startups in the history of journalism.


Editors of the Dutch, German and Spanish news startups spoke within a couple days of each other this spring to talk about what worked and led their campaigns to such a potent reaction.


For obvious reasons, we wrote about each of them. Here are some of the things all three crowdfunding campaigns had in common.


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Carney to revolutionize freelance journalism

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Scott Carney wants to completely change freelance journalism and writing, but before we talk about how, let’s look at why he decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign.


It’s not about the money. He doesn’t even think crowdfunding is the best way to raise money for his idea.


“Crowdfunding is not about the money. It’s about the audience, and knowing that the audience is invested in it, to some degree,” he said. “I wanted to have that inbuilt community first so that I know that I have active participants so that going into building it I know it’s going to be a success.”


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