Futurity (website)
Type of site | News aggregator |
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Available in | English |
URL | www |
Launched | 15 September 2009 |
Futurity is a nonprofit website that aggregates news articles about
History
Futurity was established in 2009 by a group of thirty-five research universities, including
Membership
Membership in Futurity was originally limited to the sixty-two members of the Association of American Universities. Member schools were also initially charged a $2,000 membership fee.[5] Within two years, Futurity had nearly doubled its university membership from thirty-five to sixty.[6] The site now also accepts members from the Russell Group, the Group of Eight, and the International Alliance of Research Universities.[1]
Content
Futurity's articles are based on press releases and other stories submitted to the site by the universities themselves. The articles are often written by the universities' public relations departments, and they are only lightly edited to increase their appeal to the general public before publication.[5][7]
Reactions
Earle Holland, the assistant vice president for research communications at
References
- ^ a b c "About Futurity". Futurity. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Futurity celebrates five years of 'cool science'". NewsCenter. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Futurity, an online outlet for research news, is launched by Stanford and other leading universities". Stanford University. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "UW joins other leading research universities to launch futurity.org". UW News. 15 September 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d Brainard, Curtis (17 September 2009). "Is Futurity the Future?". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ a b Kolowich, Steve (10 October 2011). "Hello, Aggregator". Inside Higher Education. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Barnett, Jim (24 September 2009). "Futurity and 'almost-journalism'". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Holland, Earle (13 February 2010). "Why Futurity fails". ScienceWriters. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Lerner, Evan (2 October 2009). "Futurity Imperfect". Seed Magazine. Archived from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
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