New journalism ecosystem thrives worldwide
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
“In the immortal words of Sir Isaac Newton more than three centuries ago, ‘To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.’ ” In October 2010, Executive Editor Charles Lewis wrote these words for the Investigative Reporting Workshop’s first New Journalism Ecosystem research on nonprofit news organizations in the United States. Those same words summarize the events that led to the launch of the Hungarian nonprofit center for investigative journalism, Direkt36, and many other similar centers around the world.
When, in early 2014, András Pethő started pursuing a story about the excessive travel expenses of a senior government ...
Journalists create more investigative nonprofits worldwide, despite the risks
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
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Charles Lewis
Roughly a quarter-century ago, hardly anyone foresaw what was about to happen to the commercial news media in the world's most industrialized democracies or why. Or fully imagined the new, technological innovations and publishing permutations that would ensue, including the rise of the nonprofit news organizations.
Who knew or could have known that between 1990 and 2015, the number of professional journalists at U.S. newsrooms would drop from 56,900 to 32,900? Who could have imagined that beginning in the late 1980s network television news staffs would decline by 50 percent ...
