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Journalism Without Profit: Making News when the Market Fails

New York: Oxford University Press (2018), x, 252 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 217-243, index

ISBN 978-0-19-064190-0

Signature commbox: 201:10-Management 2018

"This widely accessible book by Magda Konieczna, an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University in the United States, provides a critical and broad examination of nonprofits in the American journalism landscape. Konieczna employs very rich and insightful case studies of three American nonprofits—the Center for Public Integrity, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, and MinnPost—to show the terms of a new logic of journalism, the perils of news production outside legacy news media, and the upside of the journalistic reform projects at the periphery of traditional journalism." (Review by David Cheruiyot in International Journal of Communication, vol. 15, 2021,
1 "Afflict the Comfortable": Journalism's Public Servie Role, 1
2 The Economics of Public Service Journalism, 29
3 The Growing Field of Nonprofit Journalism, 48
4 Who Holds the Purse Strings, 89
5 Sharing the News, 118
6 "Old School Journalism by Old School Rules": Implications of News Sharing, 163
Epilogue: A Look Ahead, 207