Spot.Us, Pioneer of Crowdfunded Journalism, Preps for Expansion »
Posted By tdrapeau 5 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsSpot.Us, the non-profit experiment in journalism funded by readers, plans to expand beyond San Francisco by the end of summer, founder David Cohn tells me in the interview above. Seattle and Los Angeles are the most likely candidates for the site’s next iteration, and in the longer term, Spot.Us is looking to the east coast as well.
I caught up with Cohn at the Knight Foundation’s conference earlier this month. He won a $340,000 grant from Knight last year to develop a local news site that relies on small donations from readers for individual projects by freelance reporters. Since November, the site has funded and published 20 stories that you can read here.
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Tom Drapeau is the Director of Propeller social news. He enjoys all manner of geekery and internet foolishness. He has seen every episode of Battlestar ...
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Found via Mathew Ingram's Twitter feed:
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David Cohn was once a Propeller Scout. It is great to see how this project is developing.
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