With newspapers falling by the wayside, news weeklies and other magazines next, and the long term profitability even of cash cow TV news in question, we'll have to figure out some new ways to fund quality journalism.
There are some great experiments. Paul Steiger's pro publico. The Center for Investigative Journalism is raising money to fund a Sacramento bureau. And now, there's a web site, spot.us that gets readers to "bid" on stories, and agree to make small payments to help fund investigative journalism. Here's LA Times' Jim Rainey's take
Seems like a bit of a stretch. But worth watching.
very thought provoking.
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