Under increasing financial pressure from the web and the decline of print advertising, newspapers and other traditional media outlets have been laying off staff and trying to fill the gap with services such as Journatic -- the hyperlocal aggregator that uses offshore workers -- or simply doing without things like copy editors. But are there other solutions to that reporting gap?
GigaOm on crowdfunded journalism, suggesting could work better with individual campaigning pieces, cites US journo who raised 2,500 dollars to fund his coverage of elections. Another route could be Reddit, cites 18-year-old who used it to cover ,Colorado shootings- but how to leverage that into money for the next local big news event? Questions questions, but they're the right ones
