2 Oct 09
"Seen in that light, what’s needed for a non-profit news plan to work isn’t an institutional conversion, it’s a rescue operation. There are dozen or so reporters and editors in Columbia, Missouri, whose daily and public work is critical to the orderly functioning of that town, and those people are trapped inside a burning business model."
Rescuing The Reporters: Clay Shirky on the necessity of turning newspapers into nonprofit news-gathering organizations.
