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The official launch of Spot.us: video explains all

November 11th, 2008 Posted by Judith Townend in Citizen journalism, Multimedia

Over at the Invisible Inkling we spotted this: the Knight News Challenge 2008 winner, David Cohn, has revealed the latest version of Spot.Us, the community sourced news project, over the last few days - which officially launched yesterday. This video explains the engine for community-funded reporting, from donation to publication.

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

Tags: David Cohn, knight news challenge

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