Shelling Out the Big Bucks at ProPublica

In October 2007, Paul Steiger told The Observer that he wanted to use a Wall Street Journal pay model to recruit staffers to his fledgling nonprofit, ProPublica.

“I’m prepared to spend $200,000 on the exact right person, but if the exact right person isn’t there, then I’ll get three people at $60,000,” Read More

Is the New News Good News?

“Rats!” read the wood of the New York Daily News Express on Sept. 12, the first p.m. edition produced by the News in 19 years. And with a journalistic piggyback off that morning’s exclusive New York Times story, the News entered the New York market as a mass-transit giveaway.

While that has left many among Read More