Finding a New Model for News Reporting

Washington Post, October 19, 2009
By Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson

Real journalism is now at risk. American society must now take some collective responsibility for supporting news reporting -- as society has for public education, health care, scientific advancement and cultural preservation, through varying combinations of philanthropy, subsidy and government policy.

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