he erosion of the traditional business model for news has led many to go down the non-profit path. The result is a slew of new non-profit news websites. The Bay Citizen, which launchedat the end of May, is the newest and joins the likes of ProPublica, MinnPost, and the Texas Tribune, to name just a few. But as the closing of the non-profit Chi-Town Daily News last year indicates, running a non-profit isn’t easy.
Perhaps no one understands this as well as Jim Barnett. After almost two decades as a newspaper reporter, Barnett threw his efforts into launching his own non-profit news service in 2005. Managing a non-profit proved to be a major challenge and Barnett realized he’d need some new skills in order to be successful in this space. These days, he’s pursuing a masters in non-profit management at George Washington University, working as an in-house adviser to AARP’s publications group and doing some editing for the Washington Post News Service at night. He’s also been expanding on his academic work on his blog, The Nonprofit Road, and more recently on Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab blog. Read More
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