When Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson, Missouri last year, Mariah Stewart began covering the ensuing aftershocks on a shoestring, a newly minted journalism school graduate juggling a national story with her job as a bra fitter at a nearby mall.
Unaffiliated with any news organization, Stewart funded her journalism through Beacon, a crowdfunding platform that allows journalists to solicit contributions directly from their readers
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