Nonprofit News Efforts Gain Momentum
January 22, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
The nonprofit Bay Area News Project named its chief executive and top editor Thursday and announced a deal to provide content to The New York Times, the Times reports.
The new journalism outfit supported by the financier Warren Hellman appointed Lisa Frazier, a partner at the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, as CEO and Jonathan Weber, a Los Angeles Times veteran, as editor in chief. The project will take over writing, editing, and photography for a Bay Area edition the Times began publishing last fall.
One of Florida’s biggest foundations has announced plans to start a nonprofit journalism organization to improve coverage of state government, reports the Sarasota Herald Tribune. The Gulf Coast Community Foundation, in Venice, secured $352,000 from the Knight Foundation to create the online news service, to be called the Florida Independent.
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