ABSTRACT
As news startups grow and mainstream news continues to struggle, the debate about whether journalism’s future is entrepreneurial or philanthropic has intensified. Still, most of the research is in the form of case studies using metrics that aren’t comparable. This study offers a systematic approach to examining finances of news non-profits in the U.S. to explore levels of entrepreneurial and philanthropic funding. I find that few news non-profits so far earn significant revenue outside of donations.
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Magda Konieczna
Magda Konieczna teaches journalism at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her book, Journalism Without Profit: Making News When the Market Fails, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. Before entering academia she was a city hall reporter at the now defunct Guelph Mercury in Canada.