Why It’s Smart of the HuffPo to Partner with Beacon Reader in Crowdfunding a Reporter

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By: Mathew Ingram | GigaOM

The Huffington Post and Beacon Reader — a crowdfunding platform for journalism that we’ve written about before — announced on Wednesday that they have formed a partnership to fund and train a citizen journalist who is currently writing about the protests taking place in Ferguson, Mo. after the shooting of an unarmed black man. This announcement triggered a rather snarky response from a number of media writers, most of whom argued that the AOL-owned news outlet should just hire and pay the reporter themselves instead of asking readers to pay for it. But I think the HuffPo project is a smart idea, for a number of reasons.

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