This is the pitch for Spot.us, what appears to be an amazing - and radical - exercise in citizen journalism.
Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting.” Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories. All donations are tax deductible and if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the content, your donation will be reimbursed. Otherwise, all content is made available to all through a Creative Commons license. It’s a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate.
Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo.
Spot.us is here.
2 comments:
Hey - thanks for mentioning spot.us. Check out the site, it takes 5 seconds to register ;)
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David Cohn
(the guy who started spot.us)
Dave:
Will check out some more: I spoke about your site at the LSE/POLIS Future of Financial Journalism seminar on Monday, which I blog about elsewhere on this site. The response here in London was confused: we don't have this model firmly in our heads yet. Do you think it can sustain strong and in-depth investigative reporting?
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