Sen. Cardin proposes bailout for newspapers

Oy:

"With many U.S. newspapers struggling to survive, [Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD)] on Tuesday introduced a bill to help them by allowing newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks."

"Are Environmental Journalists an Endangered Species?"

Joel Makower makes the case that

"The past few weeks and months have been devastating for environmental journalism."

Here in Baltimore, Tom Pelton left the Sun last summer.

Journalism innovations in 2008

From Changes | Newspaper Death Watch:

"the difference between the new breed of online reporting and traditional print journalism. Chief among them is the involvement of readers in the process. Editor Joshua Micah Marshall has even been known to give “assignments” to his readers, asking them to comb through official documents."

via Jeff Jarvis