Quick prez for networked journalism summit

1. Community Funded
Reporting

2. What does it look like?

3. How Spot.Us Will Work
• Can ‘give back‘ to Spot Us community • Anyone can create a story tip.
receiving temporary rights to content.
• Groups form to ‘pledge’ resources.
• Get quality content for a lower price. Community
Can create story ideas.
News Organizations Reporters
Can invest in future content Pitch the public
• Licenses under Creative
Commons
• Reporters write a contract for
hire.
• Matches Qualty Assurance
editor paid 10% of the
• Groups form to ‘donate’ resources.
Spot.Us
fundraising. • They fundraise together.
Organizes a marketplace
Takes no money, but asks for donations as well
Why do we need it?

4. Current Status
• Received startup grant from Knight Foundation.
• Have designs and developers - using agile methods.
• Beta should be ready by end of October.
• Using a wiki for proof of concept pitches. Already
have three success stories and one more pitch
that we are fundraising for.
Anything else?

5. Can We Duplicate?
• Bay Area Public
Health Truthiness
(discussion already
started)
• Bay Area Education
Truthiness
• Bay Area Housing
Truthiness

6. Can We Duplicate?
• Triplicate? • Bay Area Public
• Quadruplicate? Health Truthiness
(discussion already
• Fivepercate? started)
• Bay Area Education
Truthiness
• Bay Area Housing
Truthiness