DNAInfo | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles tagged DNAInfo (8)

Christine SchmidtNovember 5, 2018

2018 has been a record-breaking year for journalism Kickstarters (though only about 1 in 5 actually get funded)

Kickstarter is also walking away from its attempt at Patreon-like recurring support: “You and I both know it’s going to take more than a drip of money to help journalism.”

Christine SchmidtJuly 19, 2018

Chance the Rapper, Chance the Philanthropist, and now Chance the Publisher

He marked his purchase of Chicagoist — formerly part of the media empire of Joe Ricketts, whose family owns the Cubs — by beefing with Crain’s Chicago Business.

The Gothamist backlash, explained

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 26, 2018

Here are a few details about WNYC’s Gothamist revival (and one big question)

Gothamist is back (yay!), but DNAinfo is not (boo!). Here’s what we’ve learned about the public radio bid to bring the site back.

Christine SchmidtFebruary 8, 2018

DNAinfo Chicago will be reborn as Block Club Chicago, relying on blockchain and subscriptions instead of billionaires

“We wanted to focus on neighborhoods and we wanted to have a membership model. We didn’t get to do it our way at DNA, at least on the business side. So we said, ‘Let’s just do it our way now.'”

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 21, 2017

Here are three tools that help digital journalists save their work in case a site shuts down

“So many people who work professionally on the Internet really don’t know, until too late, that their work is this fragile.”

Ricardo BiltonNovember 3, 2017

The risk of billionaire-funded media, the importance of archiving, and other takeaways from the demise of DNAInfo and Gothamist

Signs that the sites’ owner Joe Ricketts didn’t hold journalistic independence sacrosanct came soon after DNAinfo acquired Gothamist LLC, which promptly deleted at least five stories since 2010 about its new owner.

Joseph LichtermanJanuary 14, 2016

Working with young reporters, City Bureau is telling the story of police misconduct in Chicago

“Those areas, more than any part of the city, have been disenfranchised over the past 100-plus years. Even though there’s coverage there, it’s often quick, one-hit coverage — parachute journalism.”