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Independent must mean self-sufficient

The authors of a new report on the future of American journalism are open to the idea of allowing newspapers to be nonprofit entities so they could qualify for grants and contributions. "The Reconstruction of American Journalism" by Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson do not endorse a government bailout of newspapers but suggest the nonprofit path as a way for newspapers to stay afloat.

Downie is vice president at large and former executive editor of The Washington Post and Weil Family Professor of Journalism at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Schudson is a professor of communication at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

"This is a tempting solution, but it has hidden dangers," notes Connie Coyne, reader advocate at the Salt Lake Tribune. "Donations would make objective reporting difficult -- and, even if the reporting were objective, would readers trust it?"

Connie Coyne in The Salt Lake Tribune

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