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Another Nonprofit News Launch

ProPublica, the much-hyped not-for-profit investigative news startup, took the wraps off its Web site Tuesday.

News Fatigue Hits Young Adults

Generation Text may not be tuning out the media due to lack of interest as is widely believed, but rather due to the overconsumption of news and information on new platforms, a study suggests. 

Understanding the Digitally Savvy

With 1 percent of the nation's population controlling a disproportionate amount of its wealth, the same can now be said of an emerging digital elite and its new-media consumption habits.

Over the Horizon

A new British book, Flat Earth News, provides a well-researched answer to the age-old question: Why are the news media so dumb?

The Bottom Line for Nonprofit News

Across America, nonprofit Web sites are trying to keep public interest journalism alive at the local level. But to provide what print newspapers increasingly do not, these digitized nonprofits must overcome the challenge facing every startup: Eventually, they have to break even.

‘Journalism Without Journalists’

A Shorenstein Center Fellow sheds light on what’s working in the booming area of citizen journalism.