What Works for Crowdfunding Local News

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by: Josh Sterns | Medium

When it comes to crowdfunding it is usually the record breakers that make news. The largest number of donations, the highest amount raised, etc… However, every week hundreds of small projects launch crowdfunding campaigns, and there is a lot we can learn from their successes and failures too.

That’s why I was excited last fall when I began talking with journalism crowdfunding platform, Beacon, about experimenting with how to make crowdfunding work for small local news organizations.

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