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Special Series: Collaborative Journalism
June 15, 2016
By: Ben DeJarnette
Excerpt from MediaShift
Canadian start-up Discourse Media has won awards, acclaim, and scholarly attention for its innovative style of collaborative solutions journalism. But three years ago, when co-founder Erin Millar first started approaching prospective collaboration partners, Millar says the idea wasn’t exactly met with high-fives and applause.
“It was like I was speaking Greek,” she joked. “Getting across some of those competitive barriers is really tricky.”
These days, Discourse Media’s collaborative approach is finding a more receptive audience in Canada, Millar says — and increasingly it’s no anomaly. From San Francisco to Brazil to Europe, collaboration between news organizations appears to be catching on — a trend highlighted this spring by the Panama Papers investigation, a year-long collaboration led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to expose global tax evasion and money laundering.
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