The Value Proposition for Hard News

"The fluff is more fun to read than the loss-leading reports about starvation in Sudan, but it isn't the sort of thing you miss when it's gone. Not many people would get misty-eyed over the closure of, say, 'Thursday Styles,' fascinating as its weekly shopping deconstructions often are."
- The Atlantic

Philadelphia City Paper discusses non-profit journalism

See this article: Journalists Needed

Interesting stuff, although I think philanthropic support of journalism and public funding of journalism are two separate issues.