The Media Equation – What Would It Take to Support a Newsroom?

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Trent
in

A Newsroom Subsidized? Minds Reel

A report by Leonard Downie Jr., formerly of The Washington Post, sets forth a number of ways to pay for journalism. One of them is government money.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/business/media/19carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

“Fewer journalists are reporting less news in fewer pages, and the hegemony that near-monopoly metropolitan newspapers enjoyed during the last third of the 20th century, even as their primary audience eroded, is ending.”

In other words, the current advertising model won’t continue to support so-called accountability journalism.