Fresh off painful layoffs, the tally of 7,700 media jobs lost this year, and a warning that the first six months of 2020 will be especially painful for local newspapers, in steps the American Journalism Project with its first set of grantees — aiming to fill some holes in that market with venture philanthropy.
AJP, the co-brainchild of Chalkbeat cofounder Elizabeth Green and The Texas Tribune’s biggest financial fan John Thornton, has raised $46 million over the past year from a collection of jo