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that hard. online news operations have grown in the last 10 years. they do not come from a large place that has to shrink. they can run their businesses to always have a profit. many of them got started during the internet bubble where they raised money from venture capitalists, overspending, never getting their revenues that they needed, then collapsing. but the ones that succeeded build a brand and had a product that people wanted. they were either sold or they remained making a profit. >> i imagine that there is a very intense conversation going on right now between types of fundi...

gather the news, in the way that we deliver the news, in the way that we received the news. we have with us a stellar panel of top thinkers in the fields of media, education, finance, and government represented, but we also wanted to encourage an audience to participate and drive to a's discussion. so you are asked to ask discussions -- questions. if you would like to ask questions, please move toward the middle aisle. as tom mentioned also, our conversation will be divided into five parts. first, we will talk about the quality of reporting in the past few years. we will also talk ab...

>> welcome to our town hall forum. i am the co-host of open hope" crosscurrent." i am joined by my colleague also from kalw. we would like to welcome you on behalf of the society of professional journalists for what promises to be a bi discussion about what is going on in journalism today. what we want to talk about are the rapid changes going on right now in journalism with a convergence of new technology, new media, and a weak economy. all that has basically forced changes in the way that we gather the news, in the way that we deliver the news, in the way that we received the news....

many of them got started during the internet bubble where they raised money from venture capitalists, overspending, never getting their revenues that they needed, then collapsing. but the ones that succeeded build a brand and had a product that people wanted. they were either sold or they remained making a profit. >> i imagine that there is a very intense conversation going on right now between types of funding. let's move on to sandy from new american media. how have these problems facing the mainstream set affected the ethnic media community and the jobs for ethnic journalists? >> ...

where 600 students are studying journalism. next to her is mark adkins, the president of the "san francisco chronicle." next to him is dr. xena ibrahim. lisa frazier is the publisher of "bay area citizens." paul connelly is the senior vice president of the tcc group and he manages the challenge fund for journalism, one of the largest sources of grants for journalism. now on the back row, crank aaron is the senior director of the free press, a group working to increase government funding for the media. frank frankle is a journalism professor at stanford university. next to him is ron ...