Crowdfunding a small but growing boost to journalism: report

UNDER THREAT: Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organiaations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks, according to research by two Google security engineers. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: Crowdfunding over the Internet is a small but growing boost to journalism, with funds raised soaring to US$1.7mil (RM7.44mil) in the first nine months of 2015, a report by the Pew Research Centre said. 

That compared with US$49,256 (RM215,660) raised through Kickstarter from April 2009, when the fundraising website got its start, to the end of that year.