Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation
As local news has grown as a research and policy concern, venture philanthropy organizations, like the Google News Initiative, Meta Journalism Project, and American Journalism Project, have forwarded a capacious vision of innovation as offering a broad set of revenue-based solutions to local news’ c...
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| description | As local news has grown as a research and policy concern, venture philanthropy organizations, like the Google News Initiative, Meta Journalism Project, and American Journalism Project, have forwarded a capacious vision of innovation as offering a broad set of revenue-based solutions to local news’ crises. This article analyzes materials produced by these organizations as a form of metajournalistic discourse to understand how venture philanthropists’ focus on local news and innovation buttresses their authority to intervene in journalistic cultures and articulate visions for the future. Venture philanthropy organizations have claimed a broad and granular authority to define the directions of local journalism’s future, recursively justifying their role as stewards of tech industry largesse by declaring which problems, practices, and innovations are worthy of investment and attention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-75bf86b79ef140b997a486d6f8d79e642024-02-29T10:28:22ZengCogitatioMedia and Communication2183-24392024-02-0112010.17645/mac.74963365Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of InnovationBrian Creech0Department of Journalism and Communication, Lehigh University, USAAs local news has grown as a research and policy concern, venture philanthropy organizations, like the Google News Initiative, Meta Journalism Project, and American Journalism Project, have forwarded a capacious vision of innovation as offering a broad set of revenue-based solutions to local news’ crises. This article analyzes materials produced by these organizations as a form of metajournalistic discourse to understand how venture philanthropists’ focus on local news and innovation buttresses their authority to intervene in journalistic cultures and articulate visions for the future. Venture philanthropy organizations have claimed a broad and granular authority to define the directions of local journalism’s future, recursively justifying their role as stewards of tech industry largesse by declaring which problems, practices, and innovations are worthy of investment and attention.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7496american journalism projectfacebook journalismgoogle news initiativelocal newsmeta journalism projectmetajournalistic discourseventure philanthropy |
| spellingShingle | Brian Creech Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation Media and Communication american journalism project facebook journalism google news initiative local news meta journalism project metajournalistic discourse venture philanthropy |
| title | Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation |
| title_full | Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation |
| title_fullStr | Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation |
| title_short | Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation |
| title_sort | venture philanthropy local news and the murky promise of innovation |
| topic | american journalism project facebook journalism google news initiative local news meta journalism project metajournalistic discourse venture philanthropy |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/7496 |
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