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Web site: http://www.spot.us
Bio: David Cohn has written for Wired, Seed, Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. While working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as the editor at Newassignment.net, which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social web. Since moving on and co-organizing the Networked Journalism Summit, Cohn won a grant from the Knight Foundation to start Spot.Us a nonprofit project to pioneer community-funded reporting. See also www.digidave.org.
Location: San Francisco
First Name: David
Last Name: Cohn
Title: Just a guy
Organization: Spot.us

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Welcome to the Public Press, an emerging concept for a noncommercial daily Web/print/broadcast collaborative news service. The idea is to put journalism first -- operating as a nonprofit organization that prioritizes public service over commerce. One idea is to eliminate advertising altogether, creating a robustly independent specialized vehicle for serious news. A newspaper born in the 21st century could experiment with new forms of "reverse" publishing -- pulling commentary, blogs and alternative news perspectives into print dynamically. See our frequently asked questions for more details. We have just started to seek grant funding and collaborators, locally and nationwide. We're especially looking for people with business planning acumen. If you do, please contact us. The Public Press project is an initiative of Independent Arts & Media of San Francisco. Please contribute your ideas about how to get such a project off the ground! -- The Public Press project team