In California, Startup Journalism Outfits May Be Bucking The Trend

In California, two new reporting startups will pay the salaries of “more than dozens” of journalists and pay up to 120 Berkeley grad students for their work.

Financier Warren Hellman is investing $5 million in an as-yet-unnamed nonprofit journalism venture that will launch next year and cover politics, social issues, and education. That site will employ “dozens” of journalists, use content from and provide content to NorCal’s public radio station KQED, and pay Berkeley grad students.

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