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The headline has jumped the shark. Now that page views have displaced good journalism as the key business model metric for online publications, more and more websites are relying on cheap “you’ll never believe what happens next” tactics to bring fleeting eyeballs to their websites.
While #17 on that listicle of the world’s best hamburgers did in fact amaze me, it is fundamental for our society’s survival that some topics continue to be covered by real journalists.
Thankfully we now have Beacon, a crowdfunding platform for investigative journalism that connects readers and writers who share a passion for important issues.
– Thomas Schroder, Krowdfund.com