But the traditional journalism business model is quickly dying since no one wants to pay for investigative news reporting. Several Indian newsrooms recently let staff go due to COVID-19; the journalism business is rarely resilient to an economic crisis. I would argue that journalism is a public good — investigative journalism even more so. Facebook and Google have already launched funds to support local journalism in the United States. Giving away a small portion of their annual philanthropy to a national journalism fund would be for the good of their country.

Source: The Hindu August 18, 2020 08:37 UTC