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Never mind think pieces, tell me how stuff works
An interesting observation from Spot.us founder David Cohn in this Nieman Lab video interview - readers will pay for stories that explain how things work in their community, but not for think pieces. Spot.us works by inviting members of its community to suggest and respond to story ideas and then to pay for those which they most [...]
Six months of community-funded journalism
Dave Cohen has written a thoughtful post critiquing the first six months of Spot.Us, an interesting community-funded journalism project in San Francisco.
Crowdfunded journalism site raises $2,500
for story
Spot.us, a San Francisco website experimenting with a new business model for local news, has cranked up a notch after successfully raising US$2,500 from the community to cover the costs of a reporting team to check facts used in political advertisements.
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Dial a journalist
I've been meaning to point to this for a while. US journalist Dave Cohn, aka digidave, is exploring new models for journalism with a site he's building called Spot.us. The site aims to put news consumers in touch with journalists and publishers - allowing the consumers to request news about topics of interest. As Dave says in an introductory video: "If you have 200 people, they can all hire a journalist to write a story that those 200 people agree is important."
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Spot.Us founder to write a handbook for community-funded reporting