How To Fix American Journalism

Sara Catania:

Behold two very different models already up and running. One, an inside-the-Beltway, nationally oriented, for-profit operation. The other, a hyper-local, West Coast non-profit funded mainly through philanthropy.

Both are paperless operations, publishing exclusively online. And both were scrutinized at “Enlarging the Space for Watchdog Journalism: Countering Threats, Supporting Innovations,” a two-day mashup of journalists, funders and educators that ended Friday at Columbia University.