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- New US investigative journalism site set to launch
- WASHINGTON AFP — A new venture steered by the Wall Street Journal's former chief editor plans to revive the dying art of investigative journalism in the United States, its backers said Monday. "ProPublica," to be staffed by 24 full-time journalists when it launches in January, plans to carry its...
- Research articles 2007-10-15
- Did a Non-Profit Subsidize 60 Minutes?
- In early May, we asked the question, "Does Non-Profit Media Have a Competitive Edge?" This is proving to be an ever-more urgent question as conventional news companies continue to bleed money and jobs, spurring alternative business models to emerge. To cut to the quick, however, any advantages...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
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- Weekend Reading: Intentional Nonprofit News
- The New York Review of Books has met the future of journalism and it’s buried inside a 5,200-word essay that I’m finally getting through. Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo gets the nod as “the one site that has turned a profit without the aid of print or a sponsor.”...
- External links 2009-09-06
- The 2 Trillion Dollar Meltdown Man
- The meltdown has only started, according to one observer. Granted, that observer is Charles Morris, whose January book, "The Trillion Dollar Meltdown," is now out in paperback (updated to "The 2 Trillion Dollar Meltdown"), so he could benefit from book sales to panicked people. To wit, this...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Sure, Newspapers Could Just Die A Painful Death; But Here's Another Option
- If you want to watch news travel fast, make sure it's about the newspaper industry. Fitch, a credit-rating service, has predicted that some daily newspapers will go out of business as their parent companies default on their debt and are forced to liquidate. But this prediction is extreme: There...
- External links 2008-12-04
- AP Will Distribute Non-Profit Investigative Groups' Stories
- The Associated Press announced today that it will begin distributing investigative reports from four nonprofit news organizations to its member newspapers beginning next month. The AP says this is a "six-month trial" to bolster the ailing newspaper industry, which by virtue of staff and budget cuts, has...
- Blog posts 2009-06-13
- AIG: The Lesson Not Learned
- Harry Tuttle submits: Almost a year ago in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse, our government decided to change tactics and bail out AIG. We were told that failure to step in would result in a global disaster as the "insurance" company was essentially bankrupt but too interconnected to...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Chi-Town Daily News Finds No Benefit In Being Non-Profit
- After struggling for three years as a non-profit, local Chicago news site Chi-Town Daily News is ready to go commercial, editor Geoff Dougherty says in blog post. Despite funding from the Knight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Abra Prentice Foundation, and others, Chi-Town “didn’t come...
- External links 2009-09-11
- Google "Fast-Flips" News Media Into 21st Century
- Just as I was posting about Google's many recent product upgrades and tools for publishers, the search giant one-upped me by announcing an even bigger story -- that it will for the first time start sharing revenues with its news partners via its new Fast Flip interface. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- @ONA09: Startups Publish2, ProPublica, Muckety, Daily Beast And MyBallard Win OJA Awards
- The Online Journalism Awards have been fairly good at recognizing the work of some smaller or new sites over the years but the results announced at the crowded awards dinner at the San Francisco Hilton this weekend had a different aura. Yes, NYTimes.com a couple, including general excellence for...
- External links 2009-10-04
- Nonprofit Texas Tribune Launches With Budget Covered For Two Years
- Monday evening as the Texas Tribune raced toward its launch this morning (some elements aren’t live yet), Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith took me through the new nonprofit journalism site—news stories, databases, blogs, a combined Twitter feed for every elected politician in Texas, the start of a Texas politics wiki. Unlike...
- External links 2009-11-03
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