Former WP editor Len Downie: nonprofits critical to future of news
Leonard Downie Jr.
Former Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. said in the final keynote speech of the SABEW Conference that nonprofit news organizations need help to fill the gap left by the downsizing of traditional media organizations. As noted in his recently published report on the reconstruction of American journalism, co-authored with Michael Schudson of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, these fledgling organizations need support from foundations, philanthropists and the government.
|Video and presentation: Len Downie on reconstructing American journalism. [This is not Downie's speech at SABEW, but a similar presentation he gave to an Arizona State University class on April 14, 2010.]
Here’s more on his speech from CUNYatSABEW.com, a site providing coverage of the conference by CUNY journalism students.
Downie is the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, which hosted the conference. He is also is vice president-at-large of The Washington Post.
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