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How Silicon Valley Can Help Save Journalism

A better, sustainable business model could restore the press’s credibility.
The Rocky Mountain News, a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado that had been in print since 1926, went out of business February 27, 2009. When cable TV and the internet made creating a news outlet cheaper, the business model for broad-based, unbiased journalism took a major beating.
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Tech entrepreneurs are always chattering that they don’t care about money—they just want to make a better world.

Well, if that’s true, here’s a challenge that would do more to make a better world than yet another app like Places I’ve Pooped. (Oh yes, it exists.) How about coming up with a great business model for solid, objective journalism that appeals to a broad market across the political spectrum? It might be the most profound way to help close America’s deep divide—and save us from something like that Russian Revolution scene in Dr. Zhivago.

The absence of a common, cross-cultural base of facts and understanding is, as they say

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