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Spot.us goes live, journalism may yet be saved

Today, like last week, is another historic day.
Not as historic mind you, but pretty good nonetheless. That’s right, Spot.us is live. The brainchild of Dave Cohn seeks to connect the community with journalism on a whole new level — the pocketbook.
Spot.us lets people pitch and gather funds so a reporter can write the story. These [...]

Bookmarks for October 7th from 14:42 to 20:24

These are my links for October 7th from 14:42 to 20:24:

The online ethics seal: together we can be more transparent | The Journalism Iconoclast - Concept for an ethics seal to help bring transparency to journalism. Our consumers need to know where we get our information, how our objectivity, advocacy, or opinion journalism is separated [...]