BBC:- Kickstarter hires journalist over Zano take-off failure
By Kevin Rawlinson
The crowdfunding site Kickstarter has hired a journalist to investigate the demise of a mini-drone project that failed, despite record funding.
More than £2.3m was pledged to the Zano project by more than 12,000 people, but it never got off the ground.
The freelance journalist Mark Harris will try to enlighten investors and the public about the company’s failure.
Torquing, the firm behind the project, shut it down in November without fulfilling its promises.
Mr Harris said he had been commissioned by Kickstarter to investigate the project “from its inception to the present” in order to “help the backers… get the information they are entitled to under their agreement with the project creator”.
