This Nonprofit Website Could Be The Future Model For Thriving Online Journalism

When Mary Bunting created an institute for high-achieving women, she knew she had to provide them with the material support that would allow them to  Succeed 

  Whales are disturbed by engine noise from boats.

To see the Third Reich captured in 100 vile objects is to realize how good the Nazis were at photography and industrial design  

This Nonprofit Website Could Be The Future Model For Thriving Online Journalism

The Conversation, founded in Melbourne in 2011 with university and state government funding, now has ten editions in various countries and 150 employees as well as dozens of freelance contributors; its traffic has more than doubled in the last year alone to 38.1 million monthly site visits. Its specialty is interpreting scholarly research for a general audience, and its articles can be reprinted elsewhere for free. And its outside funding protects it from worry about plummeting ad revenue. Anya Schiffrin looks into how the site’s owners and editors pull it off. – Columbia Journalism Review 

The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language.

YouTube Establishes $100 Million Fund To Support Black Creatives

The video platform is launching the multi-year initiative to fund content hosted on the site “to center and amplify Black voices and perspectives,” as YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki put it in a statement on the company’s official blog. The first work supported by the new program will be a multi-hour benefit, featuring roundtables and performances, streaming on Saturday (June 13) under the title Bear Witness, Take Action. – Variety