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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Media Re: Media.org

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:31 PM

Spot.us is a website where people submit tips, journalists submit pitches, everyone offers their money to fund the pitches, and then the stories are published open source, unless a media organization wants exclusive rights, in which case they pay for at least 50% of the story. It's also non-profit, and tax-deductible.

Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo.

Is this the future of journalism?

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Only if you get virtual coffee vouchers from them.

Posted by Will in Seattle on November 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM

depends on whether major media outlets like CNN decide to start spending part of their massive CGI/hologram budget on fact-checking and decent investigative journalism.

Posted by rococo on November 18, 2008 at 4:12 PM

God, I hope that's not the future or journalism. If you let the masses pick which stories the journalists write, my guess is that 90% of the content will be about one of the following topics: cute puppies, celebrities doing dumb stuff, regular people doing REALLY dumb stuff, and the occasional juicy political scandal about "wide stances."

Considering how dumb most of us are these days, I'm kind of against letting the popular vote control what information we receive. While it's a supplemental kind of thing, maybe it can work. But replacing journalism completely with this concept? Ugh.

Posted by Jane on November 18, 2008 at 4:19 PM

Whoops -- future OF journalism, I mean! See? Look how dumb we are!

Posted by Jane on November 18, 2008 at 4:19 PM

Allright!

More Brittney and J-Lo!

Posted by The Masses on November 18, 2008 at 5:24 PM