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Nonprofit Journalism
Audit Notes: Fukayama on the Crisis, WSJ on Exec Pay, Nonprofit News
By Ryan Chittum Jan 27, 2012 at 06:14 PM
The Browser has a great interview with Francis Fukayama on his five favorite financial-crisis books. Here he is on whether... More
Left, Right, and Off Target
PEJ report’s misguided focus on “ideology” in nonprofit journalism
By Greg Marx Jul 19, 2011 at 12:15 PM
A new report on non-profit news startups from the Project for Excellence in Journalism has been attracting a little bit... More
New Knight Foundation Report
How local news nonprofits search for sustainability
By Alysia Santo Oct 18, 2011 at 09:19 AM
Quality journalism is not a sound business plan; even if you have a good-size audience and mind-blowing stories, it’s not... More
Nonprofit News and the Tax Man
The IRS questions whether journalism startups qualify for tax-exempt status
By Ryan Chittum Nov 17, 2011 at 02:28 PM
The future of nonprofit news organizations has hit an unexpected roadblock in the agency that determines their tax-exempt status: The... More
ProPublica and How to Support Investigative Journalism
By Felix Salmon Apr 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Paul Steiger is rightly proud of his latest Pulitzer -- the second for ProPublica in as many years. He's right,... More
The Ford Foundation’s unprecedented grant to The Los Angeles Times
And what for-profit/ nonprofit partnerships mean in the age of Sam Zell
By Michael Meyer May 22, 2012 at 01:53 PM
On Thursday, Los Angeles Times editor Davan Maharaj announced that his paper, once a profit engine for multi-billion dollar corporate... More
The IRS and the Chicago News Cooperative (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Feb 22, 2012 at 03:23 PM
I wrote back in November that the tax man was making it harder for the nonprofit-news movement to flourish or... More
What’s Your Hypothesis?
Why my news startup went the for-profit route
By Josh Kalven Feb 18, 2011 at 11:40 AM
CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More
Will the IRS Derail Nonprofit Journalism?
At a crucial moment, the taxman drags his feet on granting tax-exempt status
By Steven Waldman Nov 21, 2011 at 11:32 AM
In an era of newspaper closings and reporter layoffs, there has been one significant bright spot: an explosion of local,... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
