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Venture Philanthropy, Local News, and the Murky Promise of Innovation
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Abstract 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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
journalism; local communication; news; new media; new technology; innovation
Classification
Communicator Research, Journalism
Free Keywords
American Journalism Project; Facebook journalism; Google News Initiative; Meta Journalism Project; local news; metajournalistic discourse; venture philanthropy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Journal
Media and Communication, 12 (2024)
Issue topic
Unpacking Innovation: Media and the Locus of Change
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed