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Public Support for Media – Wrap-up

Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by .

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Jan Schaffer- J-Lab: rapporteur for the Public Support group. Possibilities for public support of news media are clustering in some key areas – foundation grants, member donations, targeted micro-payments, and government support. Our group discussed how some forms of public support can threaten a news operation’s independence, either by funding coverage of certain topics to […]

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Jane Hamsher – FireDogLake

Posted on 28. Sep, 2007 by .

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Introduction and Narrative: FireDogLake is an unabashed liberal blog that started in the wake of the 2004 election. Jane Hamsher, a movie producer, created a simple blogspot blog to collect the posts she had written on her personal Daily Kos blog. “That was all it was supposed to be,” says Hamsher. Today, however, her blog […]

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