Public Radio’s original entrepreneur, Bill Kling, hopes to save local journalism, hire 100 reporters
By Andrew Phelps, Nieman Journalism Lab As he prepares to step down from the top of American Public Media, his job for the last 44 years, I recently made the mistake of congratulating Bill Kling on his retirement. Kling launched what would become Minnesota Public Radio in 1967, the year President Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act. [...]
The Banyan Project Needs Help with Launch
The Banyan project is devoted to serving the distinctive information needs of less-than-affluent Americans, a huge public that’s ill-served by mainstream journalism and has borne the brunt of the Great Recession.
FIJ Awards Grants to Investigative Journalists
Fund for Investigative Journalism Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 WASHINGTON – (June 8, 2011) The Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism has awarded eleven grants to independent watchdog journalists in the United States, Asia, Africa, and Europe. The board awarded $35,200 in grants to cover travel and other reporting expenses for investigative stories [...]
Welcome to Our Community
Is there life – or work – after newspapers? A lot of us are in the process of finding out. Because it’s generally a somewhat lonely endeavor, it struck me, in January 2010, that it might be comforting – and possibly very productive – to go through it together.
Displaced Journalists is a community – our community – where we find common ground, where we can begin to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and get on with our lives and livelihoods. [more]