General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEllsberg, et.al. launch Freedom Of The Press Foundation
https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress
Board member Glenn Greenwald writes about it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/wikileaks-new-press-freedom-group
We intend to raise funds ourselves and then distribute it to the beneficiaries we name. The first group of beneficiaries includes WikiLeaks. We can circumvent those extra-legal, totally inappropriate blocks that have been imposed on the group. We can enable people to support WikiLeaks without donating directly to it by donating to this new organization that will then support a group of deserving independent journalism outlets, one of which is WikiLeaks. In sum, we will render impotent the government's efforts to use its coercive pressure over corporations to suffocate not only WikiLeaks but any other group it may similarly target in the future.
The second purpose is to ensure that truly independent journalistic outlets - devoted to holding the US government and other powerful factions accountable with transparency and real adversarial journalism - are supported to the fullest extent possible. Along those lines, we have selected three other organizations along with WikiLeaks as our initial beneficiaries:
OutNow
(863 posts)Looks like many of the folks also belong to the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well. EFF is a very good organization too.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)and running the show. Josh Stearns, who is part of the team, lays it all out here:
http://stearns.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/building-a-stronger-foundation-for-press-freedom-and-accountability-journalism-in-a-digital-age/
Problem: Decentralized News Consumption Diminishes Donations
A few years ago Pews Project on Excellence in Journalism coined the term news grazer to describe how we get our news today: from many sources, across many platforms, throughout the day. If you listen to NPR every morning, you know you should donate to your local station. But if you are consuming news from 30 different newsrooms over the course of a week, where should you contribute?
The transaction costs of tracking down donation pages for every journalist or organizations is way too high, so most people end up with choosing one or more often not donating at all. The Freedom of the Press Foundation lowers the transaction costs by giving people one place where they can support a range of journalism organizations with one donation. And, donors get to decide how much of their money each group gets. This is not just crowd-sourced, but also crowd-driven.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)The foundation is currently distributing funds to:
The Uptake
http://stearns.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/building-a-stronger-foundation-for-press-freedom-and-accountability-journalism-in-a-digital-age/
The National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
Muck Rock
https://www.muckrock.com/
And Wikileaks
http://wikileaks.org/
You can donate here:
https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)http://eldiario.com.uy/2012/12/17/wikileaks-vuelve-a-recibir-donaciones/
http://www.rtbf.be/info/medias/detail_usa-une-fondation-de-la-liberte-de-la-presse-pour-financer-wikileaks?id=7894201
http://businessworld.cz/aktuality/nova-webova-stranka-chce-obejit-blokovani-plateb-pro-wikileaks-10214
Justin_Beach
(111 posts)Excellent organization!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Why in the world this doesn't have 500 Rec.s shows how few know.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)They've raised over $76,000 in less than 2 days which is a good start.