Interview from July 9, 2009 with David Cohn, the Founder of
Spot.us. Spot.Us is a
nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.”
Through Spot.Us, the public can commission journalists to do
investigations on important, and perhaps overlooked stories.
David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for
Wired,
Seed,
Columbia Journalism Review and
The New York Times. While
working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s
Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as an Editor at
newassignment.net, which focused on
citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the
social web. He recently became a contributing editor at
NewsTrust.net, a non-profit media
literacy tool and news filter, and is the editor-in-chief at
Broowaha, an expanding
citizen journalism network.
You can read a transcript of the interview on my blog,
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