Beacon – Crowdfund Great Journalism

beacon is a platform that connects journalists with readers to fund stories directly. over the past year, we’ve paid out more than $1,100,000 to journalists and currently have over 400 writers using the platform. we love working with news organizations to share these important projects, and to help stories reach a wider audience. - we worked with techdirt to raise $70,000 to cover the net neutrality battle in washington, d.c. - we helped the huffington post crowdfund more than $40,000 for a fellowship that will allow journalist mariah stewart to remain in ferguson, missouri, and cover the ongoing protests - we crowdfunded more than $46,000 to launch climate confidential, a startup blog founded by a team of six experienced environmental journalists - we helped the texas tribune crowdfund a 15-part series on the impact of the shale boom in texas - we worked with globalpost to send a cairo-based reporter to investigate aid money in gaza - and more! beacon was founded in 2013 and is based