A July 18 article “Cash-Strapped NY Times May Seek Nonprofit Grants” reports
The cash-strapped New York Times has begun considering nonprofit foundation funding for its newsgathering, according to a story on the Poynter Online site, which monitors news in the media industry. Craig Whitney, an assistant managing editor at The Times who serves as the paper’s standards editor, told the site in a telephone interview Friday that, ‘We’ve begun to ask ourselves whether it would be possible to get the kind of support that NPR does from foundations for its journalism.’
WATCHDOG: It appears that the future of investigative journalism is taking shape right before our eyes. Even the most successful major newspapers cannot afford journalism in-depth as it was practiced in the past. Yet in-depth and candid investigations by media are essential for a democracy to function properly.
The failure to investigate is even more acute in local markets because the newspapers do not want to upset their advertisers or subscribers.
