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    Articles tagged Spot.us (23)

    Shan WangMarch 23, 2018
    On the Pactio platform, loyal readers follow and fund their favorite individual beat reporters
    “We work in the membership model more than the subscription model, in that the primary motivation for people to support a journalist on Pactio is the fact that they want your reporting to exist in the first place.”
    Joellen EastonFebruary 11, 2015
    Here’s a recipe for successfully crowdfunding journalism in 2015
    American Public Media has decided that Spot.us doesn’t work any more in today’s crowdfunding environment. But they also investigated what does — and laid out a model for others to use.
    Ken DoctorJune 26, 2014
    The newsonomics of European crowds, funding new news
    In the Netherlands and in Germany, two closely watched startups have gone to readers to pay the bills. What lessons from there can be applied elsewhere?
    John WihbeyJanuary 31, 2014
    What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: Linking helps save newspapers and how multitasking spikes arousal
    Vigorous linking as an antidote to newspaper failure, who gets crowdfunded, and skepticism around the standard narrative of the Arab Spring: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
    For MuckRock.com, the new Freedom of the Press Foundation will mean more muck, more rocks
    The FOIA-generating startup will benefit from the new foundation aimed at crowdsourcing donations to news organizations. Dan Kennedy
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    Andrew PhelpsJanuary 25, 2012
    The Public Insight Network, now swimming in data, launches its own reporting unit
    American Public Media’s networked journalism initiative will start producing original stories based on its largely untapped database of citizen sources.
    Justin EllisOctober 25, 2011
    Bringing a crowd to a records fight: The Columbia Missourian uses Spot.us to raise money for data request
    For one community newspaper (and journalism school teaching lab), outside donations quickly helped pay for access to public data.
    November 23, 2010
    A handbook for community-funded journalism: Turning Spot.Us experience into lessons for others
    October 27, 2010
    MediaBugs revamps its site with a new national focus
    October 27, 2010
    Metrics, impact, and business plans: Things to watch for as the Knight News Challenge enters a new cycle
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