Will Journalism Outlive the Death of its Institutions
With some of the largest papers in threat of bankruptcy or going completely digital, many believe that journalism is on the brink of extinction. For people like David Cohn, that will never be the case if they have any part in it. For five months, his reader-funded journalism project called Spot.us has been providing a platform for local reporters to get paid while researching the stories that people want to read.