Journalism nonprofits have been operating in the shadows of major metro dailies since the dawn of the newspaper age. In 1846, a handful of New York newspapers created a cooperative to pay for dispatches from the front lines of the Mexican-American War. That effort became the Associated Press, and it remains a nonprofit. But what once was an anomaly is becoming a business model in its own right. This is an historic time, with new nonprofit newsrooms launching every month. Many are doing the ki…
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