All entries tagged: Raleigh News & Observer
What’s keeping news organizations from trying the “low-profit” model?
With so many journalism luminaries focused this week on new business models at Aspen Institute’s FOCAS09 conference, I was a little surprised not to hear more about the potential for the low-profit limited liability corporation, or L3C.
The L3C is a hybrid corporation that straddles the line between for-profit and nonprofit enterprise. Vermont last year was [...]
Wolfram Alpha and other ways to enhance database journalism
Participants at Matt Thompson’s recent gathering on the Future of Context discussed (among many other things) database journalism — city crime maps, for example — and agreed that they can actually be a disservice to readers. The problem comes in maintaining the data: a reporter or team gathers data, analyzes it, creates interesting presentation graphics [...]
