Crowdfunding, the art and science of appealing to the crowd to fund a personal project is becoming a fast growing method used by many individuals and businesses across industries to get off the ground a venture that might not to see the light.<\/p>\n
In this 3-part series on \u2018how to use crowdfunding to launch your projects\u2019 we will learn from two journalists, Peter Jukes<\/strong> and Martin Hickman<\/strong>, how they have successfully crowdfunded their journalism projects and how you can do the same.<\/p>\n Peter Jukes<\/strong> has pioneered journalism crowdfunding in the UK when he appealed to the crowd to fund his coverage of the widely publicised 2014\u2019s phone hacking trials and his first book Beyond Contempt and then persuaded 1500 readers to \u2018pre-buy\u2019 his next book on phone hacking, \u2018The Fall of the House of Murdoch\u2019.<\/p>\n Martin Hickman<\/strong>, is an investigative journalist, founder of Canbury Press and co-author of \u2018Dial M for Murdoch\u2019 and covering the\u00a0<\/span>#WallisTrial using crowdfunding.<\/p>\n In this first part Martin tells how he met Peter, got embarked into the crowdfunding world to then becoming Peter\u2019s publisher. Watch now<\/p>\n