“NSS” – Newspapers are Sick Syndrome – can sure lead to some strange and ironic survival plans. The latest is the San Francisco Examiner’s plan to take over the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Given their histories, who would have predicted this “Odd Couple” marriage?
Mike Wallace, who had fought legendary legal battles over his own news stories, felt that there should be a way for people who had felt they had been wronged by the news media to make their complaints heard.
Recent Bay Area journalism award winners offers evidence of how nonprofit news outlets are growing in influence and maturity as traditional, commercial news organizations struggle to maintain profitability.