{"id":90272,"date":"2013-06-05T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T05:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=90272"},"modified":"2013-06-05T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T11:33:08","slug":"reader-funded-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/reader-funded-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader-Funded Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/glenn-greenwald\" rel=\"author\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88366\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/was-the-london-killing-of-a-british-soldier-terrorism\/glenn-greenwald\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88366\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88366\" title=\"Glenn Greenwald\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Glenn-Greenwald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glenn Greenwald<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>This model is vital in sustaining real journalism: it fosters independence, invests readers in the work that is done, and keeps journalists accountable to individuals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many news outlets around the world, in the age of the internet, have struggled to find an economically sustainable model for supporting real journalism. The results, including for some of the largest, have been mass lay-offs, bureau closures, an increasing reliance on daily spurts of short and trivial traffic-generating items, and worst of all, a severe reduction in their willingness and ability to support sustained investigative journalism. All sorts of smaller journalistic venues &#8211; from local newspapers to independent political blogs &#8211; now devote a substantial portion of their energies to staying afloat rather than producing journalism, and in many cases, have simply ceased to exist.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jun\/04\/reader-funded-journalism\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":88366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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