Journo crowdfunding campaigns
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.