Community Funded Reporting

What does it look like?

How Spot.Us Will Work

Spot.Us

Organizes a marketplace

Community

News OrganizationsCan invest in future content

Can create story ideas.

ReportersPitch the public

• Anyone can create a story tip.

• Groups form to ‘pledge’ resources.

• Reporters write a contract for hire.

• Groups form to ‘donate’ resources.

• They fundraise together.

• Licenses under Creative Commons

• Matches Qualty Assurance editor paid 10% of the fundraising.

• Can ‘give back‘ to Spot Us community receiving temporary rights to content.

• Get quality content for a lower price.

Takes no money, but asks for donations as well

Why do we need it?

• 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.

Current Status

Anything else?

Can We Duplicate? • Bay Area Public

Health Truthiness (discussion already started)

• Bay Area Education Truthiness

• Bay Area Housing Truthiness

Can We Duplicate? • Triplicate?

• Quadruplicate?

• Fivepercate?

• Bay Area Public Health Truthiness (discussion already started)

• Bay Area Education Truthiness

• Bay Area Housing Truthiness