Digital News Ventures

Seed fund for news and journalism startups.

Femsplain

We are a content publisher powered by anyone female identified.
Femsplain is a fully operational content publisher powered by contributions from anyone female identified. We host quarterly live events for community members and smaller workshops for our contributors. Our mission is to empower and connect women through shared ...

Tiny Spark

Debating the Business of "Doing Good"
Tiny Spark is an in-depth interview program aimed at igniting debate about the Business of Doing Good. Hosted by a public radio veteran, Tiny Spark looks closely and critically at the trillion dollar non-profit sector, which continues to grow without sufficient ...

Sii TV

One click for an up-to-date personalized video newscast on your mobile or TV.
With Sii.TV, you can watch the news the way you watch movies on Netflix: On Demand. * COMPLETE. Sii.TV shows full newscasts, starting with the latest headlines from our anchor followed by a playlist we've selected from the 10,000 news reports a day that we've ...

Hack Pack

LinkedIn meets Facebook for the media industry
Hack Pack delivers the tools to instill substance into the 24-hour news cycle. The free global network enables journalists to build local communities, while finding editors and stringers from around the world. Its personal portfolios, rating algorithm and designated ...

Hublisher

Digital micro-magazine newsstand
Hublisher is an art union based in New York City who is passionate about art of telling stories using the power of the great picture and words. Hublisher is publishing micro magazine of up to six slides with text, pictures and captions. Created content in a collaboration ...

MetaInbox

Triaging Feed/Email Reader
NOTE: This project is on hold indefinitely while I work on Union Square Labs. MetaInbox pulls in articles from the news and your email, and gives you a unified interface for reading them. They can be quickly sorted into what you want to discard or read later. ...

Readingly

Instagram for journalism
Readingly is a social network for discovering, sharing and discussing great articles of journalism and other long-form writing. Its aim is to provide a focused experience that is uninterrupted by other types of activity common on general-purpose social networks ...

Unscroll

A totally uninteresting and redundant effort to connect facts with ideas.

Financial Times - Tilt

Premium news & analysis from the Financial Times focused exclusively on the emerging world
FT Tilt is a premium online financial news and analysis service focused exclusively on the emerging world. It serves finance professionals who have a direct interest in these markets and business professionals who need a deeper understanding of the fast-growing ...

Laughspin

All things comedy
Laughspin is your hub for comedy-- news, exclusive interviews with the biggest names, reviews and plenty of videos to keep you laughing. More than an editorial destination, Laughspin serves as a guide for an ever growing comedy audience. Whatever makes you laugh ...

Crispy Gamer

Local Time

News for your Life - A news and social platform that puts neighborhoods online
Localtime is an online news product that provides a digital home for neighborhoods and the citizens, businesses and local groups who live in them. Born from a passion to preserve high-quality, independent journalism, LocalTime is the long sought after bridge ...

Chalkbeat

Covering educational change efforts in the communities where improvement matters most.
Chalkbeat was created as a merger of GothamSchools and EdNews Colorado, independent news nonprofits now known as Chalkbeat New York and Chalkbeat Colorado. Our mission is to inform the decisions and actions that lead to better outcomes for children and families ...

Vourno

Crowdfunding video journalism
Vourno is the premier international crowdfunding platform and independent news network for video journalism projects. Vourno provides journalists with the tools to raise capital for the creation and production of quality, newsworthy content and gives the public ...

Keepr

Search Engine for breaking news
Keepr automatically finds and curates developing news stories as it happens by applying NLP and social network analysis to structure social media contemt.

Journal.is

Content marketing with the values of journalism
Journal.is is a new way for individuals, companies, brands and anyone else to create original content. We use the values of high-quality journalism to create the perfect story for you -- be it a longform in-depth feature or a beautiful short film. Using ...

Sageworks Institute

Financial educational platform for journalists
Sageworks Institute is dedicated to bring clarity to financial statements and financial analysis for journalists. We provide a variety of educational resources, including on-demand classes, live webinars and research papers, for journalists covering business, finance, ...

Storyhunter

Original Video Journalism Platform
Storyhunter is an online platform connecting media companies and brands with the world's top freelance journalists and filmmakers. For media companies, brands, and NGO's, we make it simple to find, hire, and pay freelancers anywhere for any kind of production. ...

Artsy Fartsy Show

Enhancing lives world-wide by inspiring art inclusion

datawovn

Big data journalism
Datawovn is a media site dedicated to journalism through data, painting the big picture around critical issues in the news. It aims to address two shortcomings in digital news today. First, that a great wealth of knowledge is locked up in open datasets, and unlocking ...

grasswire

The Newsroom of the Internet
Whenever news breaks the Internet is flooded with content. First-hand pictures and videos, reaction, and even intentional lies and propaganda are all published at incredible rates. The information produced creates a firehose too big for anyone to drink from, and ...

Need2Kno

Simplest. News. Possible.
Need2Kno is a daily newsletter with the most important news updates, shared in one sentence each. It is important to know what is going on around the world but all too often we get busy and the news doesn't reach us; it's time to change that. Our goal is to only ...

The Moiety Project

Email Optimization for Journalists and PRs
moi·e·ty [moi-i-tee] 1. a half. 2. an indefinite portion, part, or share. 3. Anthropology . one of two units into which a tribe or community is divided on the basis of unilineal descent Journalists and PR professionals depend on one another. The aim of the Moiety ...

clearhealthcosts.com

The kayak.com of health care.
Our mission is telling people what things cost in health care, a traditional mystery. Shouldn't you know that your MRI could cost as little as $450 or as much as $6,000? Shouldn't you be able to know other health costs, too? We're here to help. People are coming ...

Highbrow Hip Hop

The smart source for music and news
Highbrow Hip Hop is an online magazine that provides quality reporting of the latest music and news in hip hop culture. Founded in March 2013, HighbrowHipHop.com is quickly becoming the go-to source for music fans looking for unique, premium content and an optimized ...

College Startup

A Global Voice for Student Entrepreneurship
College Startup magazine is a growing independent international publication that highlights the stories of startups and events in the startup communities of student and alumni entrepreneurs. We are the global voice for student entrepreneurship.    Founded in 2012, ...

Sawhorse

Muck Rack (SaaS platform for PR & journalism) & Shorty Awards (best of social media)
OUR PRODUCTS Muck Rack http://muckrack.com connects journalists with PR pros, companies and sources. Journalists use Muck Rack to build portfolios, track the success of their articles and connect with colleagues. Companies use Muck Rack to get more press and receive ...

The Global Paywall

A single paywall to access all digital journalism.
Summary Like Spotify for journalism, a single paywall would allow access to the majority of news outlets (all of which are currently facing a revenue crisis about to get only worse). Revenue would be streamed behind the scenes. The current crisis. The past decade ...

NationSwell

Social impact journalism & events
NationSwell is a multi-platform media company that elevates and drives action behind solutions to America's greatest national challenges. We cover innovative ideas about governance, the environment, education, and national service from around the country. Our journalists ...

Blink

Connecting media companies with professional freelancers in real-time
Over the past decade media companies spent billions of dollars converting their analog products to digital. This created a huge new market (20B+ a year) for freelance photographers, video producers, journalists and other professionals who create premium content. ...

Instablogs

Helping you know the world from a community point of view, sharing global news, trends community opinion and views

Inform Technologies

Thematic

Visual storytelling done right
Onilne user attention span is at an all time low. Individuals, publishers and brands are attempting to overcome this challenge by introducing new and innovative ways to display content to their audiences. This is why visual storytelling has become an industry trend ...

Pitch Me

Matching quality journalists to publishers
We match content creators with new indie publishers. New magazines and branded content keep launching worldwide, but it's surprisingly hard for new publishers to find good writers, photographers, and filmmakers. So we're building a place that matches creatives ...

Opin, Inc.

Social blogging platform
Opin is a website based on the simple idea that there's a writer in all of us, each equipped with a built-in audience of eager readers in our friends, family and colleagues. It's the idea that social media can and ought to be thoughtful. I started Opin with a ...