Politifact on skeleton staff while seeking new funding
Peter Fray
Australian fact-checking website Politifact has seen a series of major departures and is operating on a skeleton staff as it seeks an injection of funds to ensure the website’s survival.
Editor-in-chief Peter Fray, who founded the Australian site and largely funded its launch, has told Mumbrella he has been talking with potential partners since funding dropped off in the wake of the Federal election.
As interim election partnerships with Fairfax Media and the Seven Network came to an end, Politifact was forced to cut staff and senior reporters such as Chris Pash, David Humphries, Michael Pelly and reporter Ellie Harvey have departed. The editorial team has been reduced from around 7 full time editorial staff to just three part-time reporters, as Fray searches for new sources of funding.
crowdfunding? I like to check the site as a quicky reference to the days dribble.
Yes, crowdfunding. Many of us find the site very useful and check it almost daily. We can’t afford to lose it,
the same media who decite and propaganda for abbott looking for peopel to help them