Our friend Marion Fremont-Smith at the Harvard Kennedy School has just issued an important paper on the nonprofit model in journalism. If you’re part of a news organization that is considering switching to nonprofit status, it’s definitely worth a read.
While there are plenty of news organizations operating as nonprofits, there have been looming questions around [...]

The cover story in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine is a 13,000-word investigation of the New Orleans hospital where patients were euthanized in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It’s a remarkable and tragic story that may also represent the most expensive single piece of print journalism in years.
This is the new economics of news [...]

A new archive of mug shots on The St. Petersburg Times’ tampabay.com isn’t wanting for viewers: 100,000 people reportedly visited the site in the first three hours after its debut on Monday. And in some ways it’s just a web iteration of the old police blotter — or a technically advanced version of the old [...]