American Public Media buys crowdfunded news site Spot.Us

Source Paid Content on November 30, 2011 0 Comments
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"American Public Media Buys Crowdfunded News Site Spot.Us," Paid Content, November 30, 2011.

Public radio programming producer American Public Media is acquiring journalism crowdfunding site Spot.Us and integrating it into its Public Insight Network crowdsourcing platform.

In a post at PBS’s Idea Lab, Spot.us founder David Cohn writes that the acquisition makes sense because both PIN and Spot.us “create a media that is more responsive and responsible to the public’s needs according to their own volition.”

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Topics Crowd Funding & Sourcing, RJI Fellows, RJI in the News
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