Community Funded Reporting

[Jason Kintzler]

Kevin Dugan from The Bad Pitch Blog shared this link with PitchEngine over on FriendFeed: http://www.spot.us/

Here's the premise, according to their site:

1) An individual or journalist creates a pitch that outlines an untold story in a local community.

2) Members of your community vote, with their money, on what stories are most important to them.

3) A journalist researches the facts and puts together an article. Editors provide check-and-balance on the story.

4) Spot.us publishes the story in its news feeds and works with local media outlets to have the articles published more widely.

Definitely worth checking out...

[Digidave]

Hi!
Thanks for your interest in Spot.Us - which will hopefully launch in a few months.

If you have any questions - feel free to contact me via the website Spot.Us.

One thing to note: in order for a pitch to move forward to requires a minimum number of donors. In other words - one person can't put down 2k and buy a reporter - there has to be a tipping point or network that swarms around the pitch.

Hope all is well and again: Thanks for your interest. I'm here if you have any questions.