Nonprofit Journalism Comes at a Cost

The downside of nonprofit news organizations like MinnPost, Voice of San Diego, and the Washington Independent.

But before we get out the party hats and noise-makers to celebrate the rise of nonprofit journalism, here's the bad news. In the current arrangement, we're substituting one flawed business model for another. For-profit newspapers lose money accidentally. Nonprofit news operations lose money deliberately. No matter how good the nonprofit operation is, it always ends up sustaining itself with handouts, and handouts come with conditions. Full Story »

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Fred Gatlin
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by Fred Gatlin - Oct. 1, 2009

This article misses the point badly. It fails to understand why so many are working on journalism. The many current newspapers, magazines and radio/television journalism lack facts and good journalism. The interest in nonprofit journalism is because current profit journalism.

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