Don't fucking do this.
You want to make a difference and have money to burn? DONATE TO NEWSROOMS. There are plenty of nonprofits that will gladly accept your donations and you get to write it off and feel like a champ. Or just buy up a bunch of subscriptions for others. Fund journalism.
Stop putting money into bullshit apps that don't work and invest in a system that has proven time and again to work, when it's not compromised by funding cuts and shitty bullies with unearned influence. I realize everyone wants to be the plucky hero with the big app idea but
no one had the imagination to see this coming so I'm pretty sure their ideas aren't going to work regardless. They've watched too many movies. So do the right thing, the smart thing, the unsexy thing, and FUND JOURNALISM.
Only a fraction of journalists in this country who were working 10-15 years ago still have jobs, much less full-time jobs. Newsrooms have been cut to the bone, mostly to pay for golden parachutes and to pay off talk show hosts' and management's sexual harassment settlements.
