ProPublica: 3 Things We Learned About Crowdfunding Journalism

Twenty-nine days ago, ProPublica launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to hire an intern to help us investigate unpaid internships — an issue that has regained national attention with a flurry of new lawsuits following a key ruling against Fox Searchlight Pictures

If our Kickstarter succeeds, our intern will spend the fall semester traveling around the country, tracking these cases and documenting interns’ stories for a microsite on the intern economy. He or she will blog about the journey, the investigative process and learning experience as an intern — a unique opportunity for our newsroom (and this intern)