Hellman to invest $5 million in journalism nonprofit

San Francisco Chronicle by James Temple | Sep. 25, 2009 (News Analysis)

San Francisco financier Warren Hellman will invest $5 million to develop a nonprofit journalism venture that will provide regional news coverage online and feed stories to media partners including KQED and possibly the New York Times.

The goal of the organization, which is expected to begin next year and create "more than dozens" of positions, is to ensure thorough coverage of local politics, social issues, education and other topics as the ... Full Story »

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 by Walter Cox - Sep. 26, 2009

This story focuses on an important Bay Area development, especilly since the region has long lacked daily publications of the same caliber as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and several other publications. The proposed involvement of KQED and Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism sounds promising, with the caveat that a new publication will need to court some weighty libertarian/conservative voices to counter what many perceive as an overwhelming liberal bias among Bay Area news media.

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