What if Readers Fund an Open Journalism?
But what does this all mean both for Spot.Us and for the potential future of journalism? We would never claim to have answers, but we do have theories. Every pitch on Spot.Us is defacto a collaboration. At the very least it is between the reporter and the community of supporters. But often news organizations get involved. Sometimes we get TWO news organizations involved. In the future – I hope we can get THREE news organizations to collaborate around a single pitch. We are producing a custom CMS that is based around the idea that “collaboration is queen.” It is the acknowledgment that no single news organization can do everything and that it is okay to “link to the rest.” It requires a new level of transparency and honesty in our reporting. By opening up to Spot.Us the NY Times is, perhaps, testing the water for what future partnerships and collaborations should look and feel like. Of course, I’d never speak for the Times, just giving my own observations and reflections. For Spot.Us it
