“Any national donor large enough to put out press releases that issues one about making a bunch of $25,000 grants is either trying to fool other people or themselves.”
The buyers say a lot of the right things. But since they seem to have no publishing experience, there’s no way to know what their plans are for the corporation, or for the newspaper.
The site, recently rebranded from In Justice Today, wants to shine a light on a more mysterious part of the legal system by focusing on local prosecutors and criminal justice policy.
“You can’t stop these guys from getting rich as hell and doing things, but I can at least have a marker laid out there in the cyber world saying: Hey, take a hard look.”
“There are a lot of ways to define ‘community.’ We know it can be built around geography. But there should also be a community of people who care about climate, a community of people who care about criminal justice.”
Wang, Shan. "Readers seem willing to pay for news sites centered around a place. What about sites built on an issue?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 13 Mar. 2017. Web. 27 May. 2023.
APA
Wang, S. (2017, Mar. 13). Readers seem willing to pay for news sites centered around a place. What about sites built on an issue?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 27, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/readers-seem-willing-to-pay-for-news-sites-centered-around-a-place-what-about-sites-built-on-an-issue/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "Readers seem willing to pay for news sites centered around a place. What about sites built on an issue?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 13, 2017. Accessed May 27, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/readers-seem-willing-to-pay-for-news-sites-centered-around-a-place-what-about-sites-built-on-an-issue/.
Wikipedia
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