Journalistic Crowdfunding Platform Beacon Signs Another Partnership Deal

By: Mathew Ingram | GigaOm

Beacon, the crowdfunding-for-journalism platform that launched almost exactly a year ago and was co-founded by Facebook’s former managing editor Dan Fletcher, continues to sign up new journalists interested in using the platform. But it is also growing in a different way — namely, by signing partnerships with existing media outlets to do crowdfunding campaigns based around a single topic. The latest is a project with Newsweek that was announced on Wednesday.