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How much does it take to support investigative blogging?

The Firedoglake blog is on a mission to raise $150,000 to fund a full-time, three-person team headed by Marcy Wheeler, who made her name with her scoop about Khalid Sheik Mohammed being waterboarded 183 times in one month. Marcy Wheeler also liveblogged the Libby trial, which is considered a breakthrough in online journalism.

On day 1 of the fund-raising campaign, they were able to raise $10,000.

For Bighow, I hope to have a 10-person reporting/blogging team. With average salaries of Rs. 300,000 per annum, I am looking at Rs. 3 million, or $60,000 approximately. Soon, I will be crowd-sourcing for a list of things to investigate.

Labels: bighow, blogging, online journalism

posted by Pramit Singh @ 3:06 PM