About a week ago I saw a presentation of a journalist who is attempting to reintroduce independent journalism financed largely by its consumers. The major point is to balance revenue from consumers sufficiently with advertising revenue so that the new company can maintain its reporting independence and re-focus on issue that really matter. It would be going back to the original model of subscribers actually paying for the news, not just the delivery of the paper. It will be interesting to see if that catches on. On first look I think this is a very good attempt of getting us news again that truly matter. Here the link to their website: http://www.pressforthepeople.com/.
The founder can be seen in this video. He speaks while he is walking down Boerne’s Main Street.
Norman
