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Bay Citizen a success at raising funds for nonprofit journalism

donal brown January 20, 2011

A major San Francisco Bay Area’s foray into nonprofit journalism is going well with The Bay Citizen using a complex business plan supporting a commitment to produce high quality news content that attracts a wide audience. -db Neiman Journalism Lab January 19, 2011 By Lois Beckett Seven months into its bid to reinvent the metro newspaper, The Bay Citizen, the San Francisco-based nonprofit news site, has so far raised a total of $14.5 million in

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CIA reports influence of Chinese bloggers on government policy

donal brown January 20, 2011

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency  said Chinese bloggers influenced government policy, citing a December incident in which bloggers expressed outrage at the enslavement of mentally retarded men to work at a building materials plant in Sichuan province. -db Secrecy News January 19, 2011 By Steven Aftergood Chinese bloggers “expressed rage and despondence after learning about the plight of 12 mentally retarded men from Sichuan province who were sold into slavery to work at a building

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Commentary: Journalism becoming reactive rather than proactive

donal brown January 18, 2011

Inside Higher Ed Commentary January 18, 2011 By Michael Bugeja The director of Iowa State’s journalism school, Michael Bugeja, says that with the cutbacks in journalists generating content on location, journalism has been dominated by the likes of satirist Jon Stewart and activist Julian Assange. Bugeja says, “By elevating access over truth, ours has become a world that reacts via commentary rather than prevents in advance of calamity.” -db

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