Media industry
from48 hills
4 hours agoHero local editor-publisher enters hospice - 48 hills
Michael Durand runs two neighborhood newspapers with dedication and community focus while facing aggressive cancer and hospice care.
For decades, philanthropy has reinforced a media landscape that favors the biggest (and whitest) news organizations, whether they be nonprofit, for-profit, or startups, while chronically underinvesting in ethnic and community media. I predict that 2026 will see one or more failures of newsrooms conceived of or propped up by funders, forcing a reckoning about how we support journalism in America.