Public Radio’s Marketplace Faces Familiar Digital Challenges

Important Details: What do you do if you have one of the most successful and fastest growing business news programs? You worry about the digital future, just like newspaper and magazine publishers. American Public Media’s Marketplace is a success story, and a lesson in business news ...

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Goodwill Hunting: How to Really Value News?

We're fumbling for words, non-profit, for-profit, angels, foundations, funders, members. Those are all means to do good journalism. We just need to focus on the end -- paying experienced and newbie journalists to do good work -- and get less caught up in the cross-fire of the how. There won't ...

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Slate’s New SAGA Points to The Big Money

     Ask Jim Ledbetter about his new site’s driving idea, and he’ll tell you that, in part, it really just comes down to four companies. It’s the “SAGA manifesto" approach to business journalism, a term Ledbetter, editor of Slate’s new The Big Money site came up with, ...

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