Ifølge New York Times har filantropen Leonard Tow givet 8 millioner dollars til to journalistikskoler for at finde ud af, hvordan aviserne kan få succes på nettet.
Der er tale om 5 millioner dollars til Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism og 3 millioner dollars til The City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism.
“I’m really worried about the print-journalism side of the business,” said Mr. Tow, 80. “There’s so much contraction of employment going on; every day you pick up the paper and this chain or that chain has laid off another 10 percent, and we’re watching advertising support slowly disintegrate.”
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