Conference Examines Investing in News
This from the Quality Pays: The Press and Public Policy conference held at the University of Michigan and sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation:
I think the state of the media and our democracy now are honestly worse than when I started fifteen years ago, said Charles Lewis, founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog group that does investigative research and reporting on public policy issues.
And this:
Refusal to incur short-term expense is the reason most news organizations ignore a number of academic studies that show a direct correlation between investment and long term gains in circulation or viewership, said Tom Rosenstiel, of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The full press release can be read here.
Thanks to Romenesko for the pointer.
