What makes a nonprofit news org legit? Three other questions to
Last week, Jim Barnett raised a question about nonprofit journalism : What makes it legit? How do we know if a nonprofit news outlet shares the ideals and culture of traditional journalism, and how can we make sure we don’t get fooled by advocacy groups disguised as objective journalists? It’s a difficult question — the Internet makes publishing wide open to everyone — and at the end of his post , Barnett lays out a list of what he thinks we should use as a starting point when deciding what is and isn’t a legit nonprofit news outlet. He lists various IRS and accounting standards, a number of vague measures of professionalism, and what I’d consider an unfair standard, whether an organization is credentialed by federal or state government. This is one place where Barnett and I disagree.
Bay Area News Project has high hopes, few employees - latimes.co
Philanthropist Warren Hellman is backing Bay Area News Project with $5… (Los Angeles Times) From San Francisco — A wealthy philanthropist has kicked in $5 million in seed money. A top management consultant has come up with a business plan. A renowned university will lend not only its students but research help. And the budding endeavor has a chief executive who will pull down $400,000 a year and one of the world's most prestigious newspapers ready to give its future news offerings a home.
A New News Organization’s Emerging Leadership - Bay Area Blog -
The Bay Area News Project unveiled its top business and editorial leaders Thursday. Lisa Frazier, a partner at McKinsey & Co., will be its chief executive and Jonathan Weber, the former editor of the technology and business magazine, The Industry Standard, will be the editor-in-chief. The enterprise is backed with $5 million in seed money from the Hellman Family Foundation, with additional contributions from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and in-kind contributions from the investment bankers at Greenhill & Co., lawyers from Jones Day and philanthropic advisers from Hirsch & Associates. The graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley is a founding partner of the project.
The Bay Area News Project , that grand alliance of old money and young blood, will soon make its debut. Savor two bits of news released just now: 1. “ The Bay Area News Project appoints Lisa Frazier as C.E.O and Jonathan Weber as Editor-In-Chief “ (but maybe you already knew about that , of course), und ; 2. “ The Bay Area News Project to supply news content for Bay Area sections of The New York Times “ O.K. then.
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Bay Area News Project’s Frazier, Weber: ‘This is about creating
San Francisco businessman Warren Hellman’s foundation seeded the Bay Area News Project with $5 million in funding. Now it’s up to Lisa Frazier and Jonathan Weber to make it grow. Thursday’s announcement of Frazier’s appointment as CEO and Weber’s as editor-in-chief of the ambitious effort to create a sustainable non-profit to bolster shrinking Bay Area journalism coverage was a dot on the days of reports, including our own . SEE ALSO: Bay Area News Project Loses KQED; CEO From McKinsey; Weber Coming On As Ed
Will Philanthropist's Bay Area News Project Show The Way Forward
James Rainey, at the The Los Angeles Times, reports on the " Bay Area News Project " financed with $5 million by Warren Hellman, a local philanthropist. The project has a CEO with a $400,000 salary and its editor, Jonathan Weber, used to run the Industry Standard, a popular magazine during the dotcom era. Posted by Tom Foremski - March 10, 2010
A new convert to nonprofit journalism out west? » Nieman Journal
The start-up Bay Area News Project announced its new leadership team yesterday, as reported by the New York Times and paidContent , and it’s unfortunate that the most eye-catching bit of the news was CEO Lisa Frazier’s $400,000 salary. Yes, that’s a lot of money, and, like the news about Paul Steiger getting $570,000 to run ProPublica , it invites questions about what are appropriate salaries for a nonprofit. But let’s set those aside for now, and let’s appreciate the news about the hiring of NewWest.net founder Jonathan Weber as editor-in-chief of BANP. A year ago, Weber authored a thoughtful and well-argued, if withering, critique of the nonprofit model as a solution to the financial problems plaguing newspapers and journalism more generally. Weber’s essay, entitled “ The Trouble with Nonprofit Journalism ,” dismisses the nonprofit model as an ill-suited to define what is newsworthy and unlikely to be sustainable. Here’s a passage:
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