Seeing Spots

Spot.Us Launches Crowd-Funded Journalism Project
Wired, Nov. 10, 2008
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/11/spotus-launches.html

Spot.us, a project of David Cohn, winner of a two-year grant in the Knight Foundation News Challenge, officially launches Monday with hopes to offer a new buesiness model for media: community-funded journalism. “Anyone can submit a story tip for something they’d like to see investigated, and any reporter can submit a story pitch, which they will investigate once funding is complete. The final product is then available for free to any publication.” Cohn’s non-profit, open-source project will operate in San Fransisco for the time being, and, if successful, will be expanded elsewhere.

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