"Journalism nonprofits have been operating in the shadows of major metro dailies since the dawn of the newspaper age ... 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 kind of difficult work that for-profit newspapers are shirking — investigative, enterprise, watchdog and explanatory journalism. It’s the good stuff we need to keep democracy working." (Quoted from article)