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Local Seattle News Site, Crosscut, May Switch to Nonprofit Model To Pay the Bills
Xconomy —
... The idea that emerged as a company in April 2007, Crosscut, has proven it can build a growing audience, but not a sustainable business model. This past week, it laid off editor ...
Struggling Crosscut.com may go nonprofit
Lost Remote —
... is considering a switch to nonprofit status so it can pay the bills. “The goal, if we decide to make the shift, is a Crosscut.com that has the potential of growing bigger and faster, thanks to additional streams of revenue from donors and members,” explains Crosscut Publisher David Brewster. “It puts the public interest back into journalism, and it helps to reconnect readers/members with the site in ways that the interactive features of the web make more natural and illuminating.” Brewster points to the nonprofit ...
City council tries to envision future of newspapers
Lost Remote —
And fails miserably. With the Seattle PI just a few weeks from shutting down its printing press — and perhaps the entire operation — Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata brought a council committee together today to talk about the future of newspapers in a soon-to-be one newspaper town. While I applaud Licata for tackling the topic, I about fell out of my chair while I watched the live stream of the event at my desk. The vast majority of the discussion missed the point, straying into common misconceptions and old-school thinking about journalism in a new connected world. Communications ...
The Death Of Newspapers
Silicon Alley Insider —
... , and Crosscut – to name a few of dozens of alternative local news sites that have sprung up as staff cuts and shrinking news holes have compromised the coverage of news organizations across the land. ...
Seattle P-I Goes Strictly Digital
Today @ PC World —
... , the dominant partner in the joint operating agreement under which the two papers shared business resources for more than 30 years, continues to publish a morning edition; and the region is home to other community papers published less frequently and the Web-only startup Crosscut . The Times graciously noted that "though The Seattle Times and the Seattle P-I have been fiercely competitive, we find no joy in the loss of any journalistic voice." Sad? Sure, it's sad to see a newspaper cease publishing; I grew up reading the P-I, so I speak as a native as well as a journalist. ...
Former Seattle P-I Staffers Launch Non-Profit News Site
paidContent —
Seattle is fast becoming a testing ground for online news ventures. A group of ex-Seattle Post-Intelligencer staffers who lost their jobs when the paper went online-only last month have launched a competing local news site, Seattlepostglobe.org. Staffers are working without pay for now and the group is trying to raise money by selling ads and soliciting donations. Local alternative paper Seattle Weekly is taking care of ad sales, while local PBS station KCTS-TV is providing office space.
Readers are encouraged to give $240—either in a lump sum or in monthly installments—which the ...
Gates Foundation gives $100K to Seattle news site
The Microsoft Blog —
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $100,000 to the newly-turned-nonprofit Seattle news site Crosscut , its publisher announced Wednesday. [image] "This key lead gift, along with $50,000 of funding from generous individuals, is meant to launch Crosscut's new mission of providing online local journalism in the public interest, and to build Crosscut's capacity and sustainability," Publisher ...
