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Reynolds journalism inst. project. rethinking the news business.
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"How about this? Pay $1 a month or $12 a year to a reporter who has offered an online “contract” to deliver thorough coverage of a topic. In exchange, you’ll get alerts about new articles and comments by the writer through email, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed or SMS. Another feature would be a social page of your own, where your input to the feed is available, delivered to the reporter for their thoughts, and your own feeds to share with friends. The reporter benefits from these re-feeds by supporters as a form of marketing for their work.
"Since this would likely be an entrepreneurial effort, reporters would have to start off building their communities, with the help of early supporters. We could rally around a reporter and get them started with commitments of $1 a month ($0.03 a day). A reporter offering to cover a major federal program that has significant impact on 500 companies and 5,000,000 people should be able to recruit 5,000 supporters after a few months."
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"The rigid separations of pre-digital disciplines and professions, as well as between play and work are not the same in a digital world. News needs to move into the relevant stream of what people pay attention to. News moguls aren’t dictating anymore. They have to engage, listen, and join in, not dominate, gatekeep, and set the frames."
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