“What’s unclear is whether donations and grants will become a fixture in news publishers’ budgets and plans. For one thing, grants and donations often cover short durations. While some publications have secured support for multiyear projects, most nonprofit-funding grants support programs that last only a few months.”

“The necessary fluff of newsmaking is usually either denied outright, or swept desperately under the rug when company comes over. Since Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013, it has carried on with its traditional reporting while adding a fearsome clickbait machine.”

“In Kenya, surveys show that about 4 million people watched the Top Story reality journalism show each week, while tens of thousands have viewed the Journalistic Battles series on the YouTube channel of Armenian public television.”

“A low-key, courtly Texan who worked on Dallas newspapers in the 1960s and began his PBS career in the 1970s, Mr. Lehrer saw himself as ‘a print/word person at heart’ and his program as a kind of newspaper for television, with high regard for balanced and objective reporting. He was an oasis of civility in a news media that thrived on excited headlines, gotcha questions and noisy confrontations.”