A hint to journalism's future?

A report from James Rainey of The Los Angeles Times offers a closer look at the Voice of San Diego, a non-profit news services that's producing investigative journalism on the cheap.
Could this model for news-gathering offer a glimpse into the future of American journlism?
From the story:

Where's the anxiety? Why isn't anyone trolling those websites that obsess about the latest layoffs in the news business? Where are the sidelong glances when someone gets stuck too long in the editor's office? All of that was missing when I visited the Voice of San Diego ( www.voiceofsandiego.org), which in just four years has unearthed a nice batch of political scandals, shown how investigative journalism can be done on the relative cheap and, yes, put a bounce in the step of one corner of the Fourth Estate. With several big-city dailies facing closure and the cover of Time last week pondering the fate of the American newspaper, I listened to young Voice of San Diego journalists talk about their work with words like "exhilarating," "fulfilling" and "fun." My tiny, ink-sotted heart soared.