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David is the founder and Director of Spot.Us. He has written for Wired, Seed, Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. While working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as the editor at newassignment.net, which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social web. He has been a contributing editor at NewsTrust.net, and he is also the Editor-in-Chief at Broowaha, an expanding citizen journalism network. He is a GEN board member.

You announced yesterday that you will work with UC Berkeley's Journalism school. Could you detail what your role is gonna be?

Berkeley's J-school runs three hyperlocal sites: Missionlocal.org, RichmondConfidential.com and OaklandNorth.net. I will be working with these three sites.

I'll be teaching the students web skills and also working across all three sites to come up with models of sustainability. Our goal is to explore various revenue models and see what we can do to show that a hyperlocal site of high quality can earn money. Continue Reading