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Some enterprising journalists are using crowd-funding to bypass the need for a big media company and serve readers directly.
In Australia, the platform that pioneered community-powered reporting was YouCommNews by freelance journalist Melissa Sweet and journalism academic Dr Margaret Simons. The platform, which is part of Swinburne University’s Public Interest Journalism Foundation, is a not-for-profit organisation that ‘uses the internet to crowd-source both ideas and resources for high quality, community driven journalism’.
