Spot.Us, which has been pioneering the practice of crowdfunded reporting in San Francisco, has expanded to Los Angeles in partnership with USC’s Annenberg School of Communications. On the Spot.Us blog, founder David Cohn explains what this means:

The main Spot.Us homepage will aggregate pitches from both the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles regions. You can go to Subdomains to find pitches specific to those regions: la.spot.us and sfbay.spot.us.

As many know, I grew up in Los Angeles (Hamilton High School anyone?) so this is a bit of a home coming for me. I will remain up north running the Bay Area Spot.Us ‘ but will be working closely with folks in Los Angeles building up our SoCal presence.

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