Good News - Journalism Matters

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By: Rory Cellan-Jones | BBC

For a variety of reasons, these are dark days for journalism, with the public's appetite to hand over money in return for quality reporting apparently in inexorable decline. How cheering then to be able to report some good news.

On Wednesday two journalists, Bobbie Johnson and Jim Giles, set out on an unlikely mission. They gave themselves 30 days to raise $50,000 to fund a new online technology magazine called Matter that would seek to publish long articles and get people to pay small sums for each one.































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