The New York Times has accepted free stories from ProPublica. It has endorsed a journalist getting help from the public via Spot.US to underwrite a story that might appear at NYTimes.com. And Poynter’s Bill Mitchell says the paper is even wondering about foundation support for its work (but for perspective, I suspect one could safely Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Jeff Jarvis
In Jarvis' news ecosystem, the prey do all the work for no money so the benevolent predator can supply them with the tools they need -- exposure and money. It's the first stab at journobiology I've seen, and I think the nascent field needs to review 10th grade biology before it makes it into classrooms at Berkeley, Columbia, Northwestern, and Mizzou. The key rule of the food chain is that the predator can always dominate due to its self-imposed superiority over all lower creatures.
