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The Digital Strategist: David Cohn
A longtime adviser to the Public Press, David has been a source of tireless enthusiasm, inspiration and new ideas.
A member of the Public Press board of directors, David was an original member of the founding steering committee and has long advised our organization on everything from technology, marketing and outreach to crowdfunding and social media. “I’ve been sold on the vision and mission and want to help however I can,” he says. David is known across the country as an energetic, savvy expert in novel and engaging ways to cover communities. “There are a lot of innovators in the journalism space,” Executive Director Michael Stoll says, “but David Cohn has a big heart, and in all his creative projects has used a digital-native understanding of the Web for good.” Publisher Lila LaHood says of David: “His positive attitude makes you look at a difficult situation and see all the possibilities.”
David is the founding editor of Circa, a mobile news app that covers world events by constantly recombining brief updates. He also founded Spot.us, which connected journalists and media organizations with crowd-sourced funding. The site was later acquired by American Public Media. Through Spot.us, the Public Press was able to raise more than $25,000 for about 10 reporting projects.
David says he stays involved because “the quality of work being done is astounding. I am not always sure how it gets done, but the San Francisco Public Press produces fantastic enterprise journalism. The quality of the print product is unmatched.”
Photo courtesy of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
