Non-Profit Journalism

December 31, 2018

This paper was commissioned by LFA Group: Learning for Action on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It seeks to chart the issues around the quest to understand and better measure the impact of journalism, particularly non-profit journalism. It focuses on the experience of ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organization which has won two Pulitzer Prizes, including the first Pulitzer ever awarded to an online news organization (2010) and the first such prize ever awarded for material not published in print (2011).

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