The Brooklyn Bureau, a nonprofit local news site with backing from the Knight Foundation, is now live. The site will focus on civic affairs and investigative reporting, particularly in the borough’s less trendy neighborhoods.

Jim Romenesko is leaving his post at the Poynter Institute earlier than expected amid controversy over whether or not he provided “incomplete attribution” during his 12 years of aggregating media industry news. The news came after nearly a full day of intense infighting across Twitter and the blogosphere about Romenesko’s…

UK regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media was only paying its LocalPeople community publishers £4,800. ($7418.03) Now it wants those publishers to pay it.

Seven months after Vivian Schiller was ousted as president and CEO of NPR, the public radio network has turned to a public broadcast veteran to take her place. Gary E. Knell will be leaving his post as CEO of the Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind the long-running PBS children’s…

GOOD, the media platform whose tagline is “for people who give a damn,” is acquiring Jumo, the social action site founded by Facebook (and Obama campaign) vet Chris Hughes. Update: Reports this afternoon suggest that this is more of a face-saving merge than an outright acquisition.

U.S. viewers watched more than 145 million videos across all of PBS’s web and mobile platforms, making the non-profit broadcaster the 15th most popular online property for video for the month of June, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR). After expanding its video offerings with a major web redesign last year,…

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The FCC has produced a 478-page report on the state of the media in the digital age, and—no surprise—the report has found a big gap in watchdog and investigative journalism, and it hasn’t been filled by the proliferation of online news and non-profits. At the same time, the report doesn’t…

Two of the most prominent and well-funded non-profit news startups will use nearly $1 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to build a free, open source publishing platform for other news organizations.  Led by their respective CTOs, the tech teams of The Texas Tribune and The…

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Nearly three years into its publishing life, the nonprofit St. Louis Beacon starts the new year with some breathing room thanks to a $1.25 million gift from the hometown Danforth Foundation. The gift, the largest single donation so far, is being paid in two parts: half banked in 2010 and…

The Bay Citizen is going public with a new round of funding a little sooner than planned after a column in the rival San Francisco Chronicle left the impression it was running out of money. Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Weber told paidContent the nonprofit news startup has raised $9.5 million on top…

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In its latest move to extend an olive branch to the news industry, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is donating $5 million to non-profits dedicated to developing “new approaches to journalism in the digital age.” The company says it will be giving $2 million to the Knight Foundation, which will use some…

PBS has introduced a free new app for Apple’s iPad, along with a revamped website, that are meant to appeal to its grown-up viewers. The changes are part of a wider plan to bring more content from PBS’ 354 local stations to wider national audience. The release of its new…

Public Radio Exchange, a non-profit which operates an online marketplace that independent radio producers use to upload content so that it can be licensed by public radio stations or accessed by individuals, has raised $2.7 million in funding from three non-profits. PRX says it will use the cash for a…

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Investigative News Network, a new news network formed by 32 non-profit news orgs aimed at public service journalism, has recruited digital vet Kevin Davis as its inaugural CEO. Davis till now was the COO of LA-based Hollywood trade site TheWrap; prior to that he was president and COO of Hollywood.com.…

One of the side benefits of coming to Austin for South By Southwest Interactive: spending some time at the Texas Tribune, the non-profit news site launched last November to cover statewide politics, public policy and government. The enterprise started with venture capitalist John Thornton, who recruited Texas Monthly‘s Evan Smith…