Panel: Foundations probably won't save the SF Chronicle
E.B. Boyd covers the Journalism Innovations II conference in San Francisco ahead of the launch of mediabistro.com’s newest blog BayNewser–Coming May 11.
The Society of Professional Journalists’ Nor-Cal chapter is hosting a conference at the University of San Francisco today on the future of journalism (“Journalism Innovations II: New Work & Ideas for Making the News”).
In a panel on the prognosis for San Francisco’s chief—but imperiled—rag Jon Funabiki, a former media-program officer for the Ford Foundation, said “It’s pretty doubtful that a foundation or set of foundations is going to save the San Francisco Chronicle.”
On a more optimistic note, he added: “There is growing interest in the foundation world in this issue of how the society will be impacted if the primary purveyors of news [disappear].”
Other notable observations:
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