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“I think sometimes we get stuck in an echo chamber of being around each other a little too much. And I think that can hinder some of this work.”
Campus alumna Angela Filo and her husband David Filo pledge a $10 million gift to the campus’s Graduate School of Journalism, creating a $54.4 million campaign for Berkeley Journalism.
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In the US, vast fortunes have been made recently, and wealthy Americans are increasingly donating to charitable foundations in order to avoid taxes and decide for themselves where to spend the money instead. A so-called “non-profit industrial complex,” has grown up around this lavish funding, which In These Times magazine warned amounts to “corporate influence-peddling.”
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"Demand has gone down for printed newspapers, but the supply chain for providing newspapers in a printed format is collapsing faster than the natural interest in a printed newspaper."