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Going West, Living Loud
Going West, LivingĀ Loud
I will spend the last week in August finally doing something I have talked and talked about for years. Iām going West. Not Texas or Louisiana west, Iāve done those, but the American Southwest and California. The original reason was born from a writing assignment. I have a funded project at Beacon that is giving me the opportunity to write about the Womenās Army Corps (WAC) and the contaminationā¦
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After a 20-year ban, the Obama Administration has indicated it will allow state and federal prisoners to apply for federal financial aid in an effort to widen educational opportunities for those behind bars.
Canada's murdered and missing native women
Photos from the annual Womenās Memorial March in Vancouver, Canada taken in 2010. Credit: Kim Kim. Some rights reserved.
By Justin Cooper
āIn the last 30 years, more than 1,100 Aboriginal women have been killed or have disappeared in Canada.ā
This was the gripping subheading of journalist Jane Gersterās now successful crowdfunding campaign. Her campaign on Beacon Reader finished last week, raising $5,075 from 81 contributors, a mixture of one-time donations and recurring subscriptions with the largest donation totaling $500.
A freelancer who regularly deals in matters related to indigenous peoples, health and human rights, the missing women had been on Gersterās radar for a while.
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Is anybody using Beacon Reader? I am prepared to venture into directly paying for news to avoid conflicts from advertisers. It sounds good but i just looked through the writers it's REAL white. I seent a couple asian folks. Is it diverse er no?
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Buzzfeed, Native Ads and Crowdfunding (Beacon Reader et al)
I will be the first to admit that I am a sucker for a good listicle. That's probably a result of being overly prone to making lists myself. I am also not offended by native advertising per se. After all it completely predates the internet. Thumbing through pretty much any fashion magazine or one of the glossy local publications like "Westchester" will make that instantly evident. All of this is to say that I am happy for Jonah Peretti and the folks at Buzzfeed about the recent financing led by Chris Dixon for A16Z.
But I feel very differently when it comes to original news coverage and investigative journalism. There I am completely with John Oliver: I don't want native advertising anywhere near it. Or any other advertising. Or even an editorial board for that matter (cf the disastrous NY Times coverage of many topics). So what is the alternative funding model? Crowdfunding. That's why i have been a big fan of Beacon Reader (where I just supported sending an independent journalist to Ferguson, Missouri). Similar efforts are underway in other parts of the world, including Contributoria (UK), De Correspondent (Netherlands) and Krautreporter (Germany).
#78 The Beacon Episode with Dan Fletcher & Celeste LeCompte
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Another 2 for 1 episode!
This is our Beacon episode with guests Dan Fletcher and Celeste LeCompte
Segment 1 is with Celeste LeCompte, a good friend who I worked with at Gigaom. In between reminiscing about the old days, we talk about her efforts to crowdfund a new digital magazine on climate change called Climate Confidential with a group of writer friends.
In segment 2 we talk to the cofounder of Beacon, Dan Fletcher. Dan talks about leaving Facebook to start Beacon, the idea behind the platform and how it's been evolving since launch.
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Here is a conversation at The Classical about an interesting new venture called Beacon ReaderĀ in which readers have paid subscriptions to individual writers, who get a 75% cut of that money. It is sort of a hybrid of the paid-app slash magazine subscription model and the Kickstarter slash Indiegogo model, and it will be interesting to see how effectively it can both create worthwhile content and make money for writers. I would imagine that the primary concern would be whether a non-brand-name writer, aka the 99.9%, will be able to attract enough subscribers to make their participation in Beacon fiscally advantageous. Theoretically, having a guaranteed subscription base will allow individual writers to step away from having to hustle for pageviews and commit to the work they really want to do, although I can definitely see a scenario where authors with access to fine-grained data about their subscriber bases would feel compelled to tailor their work in specific ways; of course, that isn't really any different from what freelancers already do with respect to particular outlets. If Beacon Reader represents a sustainable model, then I would not be at all surprised to see similar projects crop up in different media, such as subscribing to particular bands, visual artists, or film producers.
