Non-Profit Journalism

As the economy collapses, one of the first casualties has been the Newspaper industry. With dailies hemorrhaging money and closing up shop all around the country, Paul Steiger, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, is heading up a new appraoch.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.

There’s more about the non-profit newsroom ProPublica here, and a nice NPR peice on the future of non-profit newspapers.