Funding Journalism In Modern Ways w/ Journalist Kyle Chayka
Next Creators
English - June 18, 2021 23:26 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBTechnology Business Entrepreneurship decentralized entrepreneurs builders defi community nfts creators Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kyle Chayka is a freelance journalist featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Verge and more. He's currently creator of the $DIRT newsletter which recently raised $33,000 in one week selling 131 NFTs. It's a proof-of-concept that shows NFTs alone can fund a small media company. In this week he talks with Sasha about:
• Raising nearly $30K via NFTs to fund the $DIRT newsletter
• His experience writing for Mirror, a new kind of publishing platform
• How social tokens/DAOs could serve as self-controlled economic engines for producing culture on the internet
• Transitioning from an art curator to journalist
• Creating Study Hall, a media newsletter & online support network for media workers.
Episode links:
Kyle Chayka: https://twitter.com/chaykak
Sign up for the $DIRT newsletter: https://dirt.substack.com
Mirror: https://mirror.xyz
Study Hall: https://studyhall.xyz