Very few of us become journalists so that we can write product reviews, celebrity gossip, or forty-seven tips for driving your man crazy in bed—even if that’s how we pay the bills. Yet as media have converged online, opportunities to produce meaningful journalism—that which gives people the tools they need to understand and improve their lives and society, the kind that inspires young people to become journalists in the first place—have declined precipitously, at least within legacy media organizations able to provide decent pay, benefits, and a measure of stability.