The American Journalism Review this month examines the decline of statehouse coverage and investigative journalism and the rise of nonprofits and other new models in a package of stories, "Journalism in the Crucible."
Our own Mark Lisheron penned one of the stories, "Reloading at the Statehouse," which surveys the new business models cropping up to cover state Capitols and leads with a bit of political theater from the New Jersey statehouse. He also explores a Texas-grown endeavor, the Texas Tribune:
The site, by its mentions in rival newspaper blogs, in investigative partnerships and story publication in newspapers, is being taken as a formidable player at the Capitol in Austin. (Editor Evan) Smith predicts the Tribune will be able to show its full range of possibilities when the 82nd Texas Legislature convenes on January 11, 2011.
Texas Watchdog and several of our colleagues in the Investigative News Network, a group of nonprofit journalism sites, were also mentioned in the AJR stories. What's clear is that the recent period of contraction in newspapers has helped spawn a generation of entrepreneurs, who are trying out all sorts of new models (and new takes on existing models) of supporting and producing journalism. Read more about them in AJR.
Contact Lee Ann O'Neal at 713-980-9777 or leeann@texaswatchdog.org.
Photo of a printing press by flickr user takomabibelot, used via a Creative Commons license.
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