Silicon Prairie News

Columbia As he has worked to bring his nonprofit startup to scale recently, David Cohn hasn't encountered any shortage of people willing to help. Cohn is the founder and director of Spot.us, a web-based platform for community-funded journalism that we reported on last week. Spot.us allows the public to commission and participate with journalists to report on important and perhaps overlooked topics. Cohn launched Spot.us in late 2008 and has worked for the last year as a Donald W. Reynolds Fellow at the University of Missouri's … read more

Columbia David Cohn didn't necessarily set out looking to launch a startup when he entered the working world. But it wasn't long before Cohn's line of work led him down an entrepreneurial path. "I was writing about technology all the time and how technology was influencing culture and different industries, etc.," Cohn said. "Eventually I started scratching my chin and said, 'Well, how does it change journalism – the actual profession that I’ve chosen?' And that was … read more