One of the big debates about the nonprofit model in journalism is whether nonprofit news organizations should accept advertising. Some do. Some don’t. Some are thinking about it. Now, the City University of New York’s New Business Models for News Project has rendered its own verdict: Nonprofits can’t afford not to.
Jeff Jarvis and his team [...]

Jim Schachter, editor for digital initiatives at The New York Times, isn’t naïve about the business prospects of two blogs the newspaper launched this week for communities in Brooklyn and northeastern New Jersey. In fact, he told me yesterday that the sites will never make money.
“If every single person who lives in Fort [...]

There’s an interesting battle shaping up in the “hyper-local” online journalism market, at least in the New York and New Jersey area. The New York Times confirmed on Monday that it is launching a new project called The Local, in co-operation with journalism students at the City University of New York. The network of local [...]