Media

Today marks the debut of Border Crossings -- a New America Foundation/BloggingHeads.tv collaboration to bring experts from throughout the Middle East together for extended, substantive conversations via video.  This first installment features Daniel Levy,director of New America's Middle East Task Force, and the SETA Foundation's Nuh Yilmaz discussing President Obama's trip to Turkey and that nation's pivotal role in the region.

I’ve had a lot of comments about the earlier post on nonprofit newspapers, including some thoughtful notes from journalists who are already operating in that sphere on a small scale, such as at Voice of San Diego, who fear that the idea of endowing large newspapers would drain philanthropy dollars away from small innovators unnecessarily. Matt Yglesias argues that the big legacy newspapers and their self-aggrandizing cultures are just not worth preserving.

These reactions have helped me think through what, exactly, I believe a large endowment should try to preserve at one or more legacy papers...