As of March 25th

1. Community Funded Reporting

2. This is one of
134,134,653,324 ideas
• We can experiment with networked
reporting, new editorial structures,
storytelling tools, p data base
journalism and more.

3. Why Experiment?
• Rule of the Internet: Cheaper/
Easier to try than to debate
about trying.
• Stems from “Agile and Iterative”
Fail early, fail often - try again.

4. Collaboration
• Content is King and is the most important.
• Collaboration is Queen and is the most powerful

5. Foundation for Collaboration
• Trust: Work with folks you can trust
• Never forced: In interest of all parties
• “Buy in” with decision makers
• Key liaison: Somebody from all parties
tasked to project
• Commitment of time/resources or
money. Doesn’t need to be all three
• The story/project: Must be at the heart of
everything.

6. Community Funded Reporting!
• Distributing the cost of hiring a reporter
across many different people.

7. You can steal this idea!
• No joke: There are several ways - ask me
how.

8. What Does it Look Like?

9. The Theory of Donating
• People donate to NPR all the time. What’s the big deal?
Throwing money over a wall
vs......

10. Transparency and Control

13. What YOU can do.
• Get involved.
• Journalism is not passive.
• Spot.Us only works if our society gets
passionate about journalism.