Spot.us: the ‘crowdfunded’ journalism site
How to find the funds to keep your site running is the needle in the haystack for most citizen journalism start-ups. Speaking after the closure of his own citizen journalism project, Scribblesheet,...
View ArticleCrowd-funded journalism project Spot.us starts first campaign
Spot.us, a project to fund community news stories by donations from that audience, has started to raise money for its first brief – a feature on the supply of biofuels to California. This is the first...
View ArticleVideo of crowdsourced interview with Spot.us’ David Cohn
Having been meaning to post this for a while, but here are the results of Alexandre Gamela‘s crowdsourced interview with David Cohn, founder of the community-funded news project Spot.us. The questions...
View ArticleThe official launch of Spot.us: video explains all
Over at the Invisible Inkling we spotted this: the Knight News Challenge 2008 winner, David Cohn, has revealed the latest version of Spot.Us, the community sourced news project, over the last few days...
View ArticleDavid Cohn: Updated definitions of journalism
In his updated post, ‘The Rhetoric of Journalism – Defining and Re-Defining What We Do’, Spot.Us founder, Dave Cohn, takes a look at some old definitions he laid out for journalism, way back in 2007....
View ArticleDavid Cohn: Things learnt from 107 interviews
David Cohn, Spot.us founder, shares with us a list of interviews he’s done ‘either in person, over the phone or via email,’ from his time publishing content for BeatBlogging.org, Digidave.org, and...
View ArticleDigiDave: Redefining journalism, cit-j and ‘honest communication’
David Cohn, founder of crowd-funded news site spot.us, discusses why it isn’t necessarily journalism and newspapers that we should be saving, but ‘honest communication’: “Journalism as a word is loaded...
View ArticleAre you on the j-list? The leading innovators in journalism and media in 2010
Updated 05/08/2010 Recent industry lists ranking the great and good in journalism and the media fell a bit short of the mark for Journalism.co.uk. Where were the online innovators? Where were the...
View Article#Podcast: Lessons in mobile-first news from Metro, Breaking News and Circa
This podcast hears from three news outlets that have adopted a mobile-first approach. It focuses on Circa, a mobile news application which you can read more about here; Breaking News, a mobile-first...
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