Andrew Nachison's Bookmarks tagged journalism →  View Popular

-- Provide seed funding for a network of local blogs and other community sites combining a variety of media, adding journalism training for the people involved.

-- Pay the salary of an investigative journalist at a local newspaper. The kind of investigative reporting that plays such an essential role - requiring deep pockets and sometimes even courage - is losing favor in too many newsrooms and executive suites.

-- Help get local and regional governmental data online in ways that anyone, not just database specialists and professional journalists, can easily use for a variety of purposes.

-- Fund local media-literacy education for this media-saturated age. This would lead to far better understanding of how media work both for consumers and producers, and could have the benefit of encouraging people to look for, and then support, quality journalism.