Mother Jones’ Nonprofit Fix For Serious Journalism

By: Lucia Moses | Digiday

Troubles at The New Republic have attracted fresh attention on the business challenges facing policy and investigative journalism in the digital era. Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes bought it not to, as he wrote, be a philanthropist but to make it a sustainable business. While there’s doubt as to whether he’ll be able to do that at TNR, another left-leaning wonky magazine is showing that the nonprofit model can make it possible for serious journalism to survive the forces of disruption.