Pioneering community-funded reporting
Spot.Us is a nonprofit platform to pioneer “community powered reporting.”
Through Spot.Us the public can support journalists and newsrooms to do reporting on important and perhaps overlooked topics. Contributions are tax deductible and we partner with news organizations to distribute content under appropriate licenses.
Community members can also take a survey from our foundation sponsors, when available, to support the story of their choice at no cost.
In November 2011 Spot.Us was acquired by American Public Media to help spur innovation in public media. The acquisition was initiated on the foundation of diligence and service that Spot.Us has provided to its community for the past three years and the compatibility of the Spot.Us platform with their groundbreaking project-the Public Insight Network (PIN). The acquisition provides a new opportunity to expand the impact of public media journalism by making it more responsive and responsible to the public, while deploying new ways to support freelance reporters and the newsrooms that depend on them.
In the coming weeks we will share the progress we make and the lessons we are learn as we integrate Spot.Us into the PIN platform and in the next few months we will unveil a re-imagined version of Spot.Us.
You can learn more about us on our press page. Or check out our success stories and partners page.
Got questions, try the Frequently Asked Questions page.
To learn more about American Public Media’s Public Insight Network, visit the website.
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Spot.Us was founded by David Cohn and made possible by a generous grant from the Knight Foundation and the sheer brilliance of CTO Erik Sundelof. Spot.Us has also drawn on support from individual funders like yourself, a fantastic network of advisors, designers and developers. In 2011 Spot.Us became a part of American Public Media and their pioneering Public Insight Network project.
