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Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Chairman Speaks: Why We're Nonprofit

by John Thornton
November 3, 2009  |  1

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In case you’ve had the good fortune to spend the Great Recession on a desert island, here’s a snippet from the Columbia Journalism Review that summarizes the media landscape to which you have returned:

American journalism is at a transformational moment, in which the era of dominant newspapers and influential network news divisions is rapidly giving way to one in which the gathering and distribution of news is more widely dispersed. As almost everyone knows, the economic foundation of the nation’s newspapers, long supported by advertising, is collapsing, and newspapers themselves, which have been the country’s ...
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  • psymetric wrote on 11/11/2009 8:40 a.m.

    Best wishes for your endeavor. Democracy depends on independent reporting of the highest integrity.

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