| Description: | An open source project to pioneer “community-powered reporting.” Spot.us merged with American Public Media's Public Insight Network (PIN), effective Dec. 1, 2011. |
| Begun: | 2008 |
| Website: | http://spot.us/ |
| Office Location: | 5160 Claremont Ave., #202 Oakland, CA |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | David Cohn |
| Executive Director: | David Cohn (executive editor) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 3 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 3 |
| Annual operating budget: | $137,737 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Yes |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes (“On our About page - we practice the TOA of journalism as well as abide by SPJ's code of ethics.”) |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Yes |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | “Reporting that we've funded has won five to six awards by my count. All of them SPJ awards. They are awarded to our partnering organizations.” |
| Contact: | info@spot.us |
New Economic Models
Investigative News Network
This group of more than 20 nonprofit news organizations was formed in July 2009 to organize the best investigative reporting sites out there. Workshop executive editor Charles Lewis, one of the original four board members, announces the group's first CEO, Kevin Davis.
World Investigative Reporting Enterprises
Inside the iLab, we are incubating WIRE, a new, online social utility platform bringing together the best investigative journalists in the world. WIRE will publish original, multimedia work. This highest quality journalism will be organized, made digitally accessible and searchable and disseminated in an entirely new way, via social networks.
iLab Projects
Citizen journalists work undercover in North Korea to show daily life
Japanese journalists have been training citizens in North Korea to take audio and video recordings of everyday life in an effort to document the hardships, including food shortages, prevalent there. Meet the man behind the training, Jiro Ishimaru.
