Online advertising budgets have been slashed due to the economic meltdown. Although this doesn’t affect loonies like myself, there are others who actually make websites for the common good. One of these sites was started by someone I went to highschool with, Rachel Sterne, and her site, GroundReport, is dedicated to democritizing news by splitting the ad revenue with the individuals who post to the website (and anyone can post- this means you!). I can […]
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GroundReport: Citizen Journalism (and some Rogue Philosophy)
GroundReport.com is a website dedicated to citizen journalism that I have co-opted. But this is not something you should hold against GroundReport. Its mission is to provide ordinary people an opportunity to report on news that the mainstream media does not pick up on. For instance you can find people reporting on the major news stories of the day, local news from just about anywhere in the world, and every so often a scoop that […]