All those struggling journalism startups can only envy the $11.5 million Roger Goodell draws as National Football League commissioner, Joshua Benton writes at Nieman Journalism Lab: "The future-of-journalism point here is that the NFL has found a spot in the vagaries of the tax code — a defined niche in which they can fit," Benton says. "I just wish the IRS could find a way to give dozens of small, community-oriented news organizations the same sort of status."
