The Betacantrips Travelogue

This is so cool — citizens funding journalism directly. Thanks Adam for the link.

These days, everywhere you look it seems that some newspaper is closing its doors, stopping its presses, or maybe just going online-only. This sea change is being heralded by some as the “death of journalism,” a transformation that has been brought about thanks to the web. But is the web really killing journalism? Or is it allowing an entirely new type of journalism to emerge?

David Cohn would probably argue it’s the latter. For five months now, his crowd-funded journalism project at Spot.us has been providing the means for local reporters to get paid while researching the stories the community wants to read.

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