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Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the "Center for Media Change" and funded by various groups like the Knight Foundation. They are partners with various organizations including the...
"We couldn’t be more excited about joining forces with the Public Insight Network to change the way journalism is both funded and reported," said SPOT.US Founder DAVID COHN....
David Cohn has decided to leave Spot.Us four months after the crowdfunded journalism site became part of American Public Media’s crowdsourcing platform, Public Insight Network. When APM took it...
There’s an undeniable awkwardness that comes from the idea of a newspaper, usually for-profit enterprises, asking people for money. It’s worth noting that $150 of the $500 came from The...
The merging of Spot.Us and the Public Insight Network will be an intriguing option for news organizations and other venues and institutions seeking ways to engage communities around news—for...
According to APM senior vice president of digital innovation, Joaquin Alvarado, Spot.Us and PIN both believe in the power of the independent voice in journalism – from both journalists and...
Cameras have been set up in Kenya, Sri Lanka, and Mongolia, in regions where biologists suspect some undocumented species may be lurking, just waiting to have their photos snapped. When an animal...
The Seattle Police Department will begin to tweet stolen car information in the hopes that that victims of auto theft will be able to get their cars back sooner and to let thieves know that their...
A very important conclusion that was drawn from the case study is, "Crowdfunded journalistic process creates a strong connection between the reporter and the donor from the reporter’s point...
Wathiqah was developed by volunteers at a series of hackathons at Stanford University. After a round of amendments, the site now boasts six guiding principles and seven proposed articles. The...
Generally, they see confirmation of the project's premise that crowdfunding aligns well with public radio's reach, the role of strong local stations, listeners' active interest in...
The Cairo-based organization DISC headed the project, using an election monitoring platform based on the Kenyan open-source model, Ushahidi. Citizens could report on the situation at their local...
Knight Foundation’s Senior Adviser to the President, Eric Newton, shares new tools that digital journalists can use: 1. Spot.Us 2. Ushahidi 3. Public Insight Journalism 4. Mobile...
Full sets of crowdsourced photos can be used to do neat things like create 3D models of landmarks or buildings. Another possible use for this technology is tracking noise pollution. Mobile phones...
So if you spot an abandoned bike, snap a picture and send it to bikes@wnyc.org. If the location feature on your phone or camera is enabled for photos, Transport Nation can pinpoint the exact...
Teenager Nadav Ossendryver is the founder and developer of Latest Sightings, a crowd-sourcing website that provides real-time updates on animal sightings in Kruger National Park, South...
I coined the term crowdsourcing five years ago in a June 2006 article in Wired magazine. I started my blog the same day the article went live on Wired's site, and for the next three years I covered the rise of crowdsourcing in everything from radiology to journalism to bird watching. When I was writing my book, How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, I used the blog to collect edits and feedback from, well, the crowd.
After three years of ceaseless writing and researching on the subject it was time to move on--literally and figuratively. In late 2009 I became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and relocated my family to Cambridge. In the last two years I've studied subjects ranging from US intellectual history to transmedia storytelling to the connection between social capital and social networks. I started teaching--one course each at Harvard, Boston University, and Northeastern University--and teamed up with the Atlantic.com to create the largest book club in human history. And in September I'll begin a tenure-track position in the journalism department at Northeastern University.
And through all this crowdsourcing was never far from my mind. I've often said I could happily spend the next 30 years of my life studying the emergence of such new forms of economic production as crowdsourcing. What I learned in the last two years is that I might not have a choice: Everything I studied, everything I taught, and everything I read was filtered through the formative lens of that pervasive concept of online collaboration.
Lay's announced the three winners of the 'Do Us a Flavor' crowdsourcing campaign earlier this week. Chicken and Waffles, Cheesy Garlic Bread, and Sriracha all made it to the final round.
A good read which discusses in detail crowdfunding and journalism.
Emphas.is is good because: 1. It is a platform that looks to the crowd to fund photographers’ work in dangerous places around the world. 2. It is not a distribution tool meant to reach media...
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