Mixed results for nonprofit journalism

Once touted as the future of journalism, especially investigative journalism, it now has both successes and failures to report, Jodi Enda writes in American Journalism Review. For every well-funded operation like ProPublica, there is a failure like the Chicago News Cooperative, and even more hanging on forf dear life: "It is too soon to tell whether nonprofits are the key to journalism's future. If they are not, perhaps they will serve as a bridge until we get there."

RE: Mixed results for nonprofit journalism

The article does not mention that in early August, the Colorado Health Foundation a awarded I-News Network a three-year, $425,000 grant to support a health reporting project at the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network. I have recently interned and worked at both for-profit and non-profit journalism outlets in Wisconsin and see the latter model expanding even as traditional newspapers here scale back on products and buy out long-term staff.