NYT Publishes Spot.Us Funded Article
Yahoo News reports:
The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance journalist whose expenses were paid by hundreds of donors in an experiment in “crowd-funded” journalism.
The travel expenses for journalist Lindsey Hoshaw‘s trip were raised through Spot.Us, which describes itself as a “nonprofit project to pioneer ‘community funded’ reporting.”
Spot.Us, according to its website, allows the public to “commission investigations with tax deductible donations for important and perhaps overlooked stories.
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