the kicker

Hey, Internet! Journalism’s Financial Crisis is Solved!

January 8, 2010

We’d considered paywalls. We’d considered foundation support. We’d considered government subsidies. The one news-funding strategy we hadn’t considered?

Spit-roasted pig.

Eureka! It’s always the last place you look, etc.

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.