Tech
Hearken raises $700,000 in seed funding
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The funding will help the company double its staff in the next year and develop new features.
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourced climate-reporting project iSeeChange aims to expand with new partners
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Partnerships with NASA and a research initiative in Northern California will take iSeeChange beyond its roots in Colorado.
Programs/Content
APM acquires Knight-nurtured Spot.us crowdfunding site
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Minnesota-based American Public Media announced Nov. 29 the future cohabitation of two new-media tools for use by public media newsrooms. APM’s Public Insight Network (PIN), which helps journalists find story topics and sources in their communities, has acquired Spot.Us, a platform for raising money to support freelance reporting. Launched in 2008, Spot.Us allows freelancers to post pitches on its website for stories they’d like to report and ask for donations to support their efforts. Spot.Us takes a 10 percent cut of the donations for its own expenses and charges news organizations to create surveys for their websites. Readers who answer the surveys get credits that they can apply to Spot.Us story pitches.