Emerging nonprofit journalism ventures set sights on education
By Louis Freedberg/California Watch
One of the more interesting questions in the burgeoning nonprofit journalism landscape is the extent to which new reporting ventures will focus on one area of coverage, or, like California Watch, will cover a range of topics.... Now a second generation of topic-specific journalism ventures is emerging – this one focusing on education. The reason? Just like health, there are numerous local and national foundations which have a major interest in education (and in some cases are entirely focused on it). So it is natural to expect a surge of foundation-supported reporting initiatives in this arena. (more...)