Funding News Stories [Crowd Sourcing]

In 2006, Time magazine told us that we were the person of the year. Since then, we've seen an explosion of crowded sourced initiatives.  We've witnessed the power of the crowd through the explosion of content generated at Wikipedia.  We've witnessed the power of the crowd through funding the creation of digital content.

The  Center for Media Change and funded by various groups like like the Knight Foundation have started Spot.US, a nonprofit project pioneering:

“Community funded reporting.” Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories. It’s a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate.