By Steven Birenbaum and Sally Mudd, California Health Care Foundation, February 21, 2020
For-profit journalism has undergone seismic changes to its business model during the last 15 years. The steady stream of advertising revenue that made the industry profitable for so long is now gone. As a direct result, the infrastructure of local and beat journalism has suffered dramatic losses of capacity and quality. This is one of the prime reasons it is essential for philanthropies, for the foreseeable future, to continue providing core support for in-depth health reporting in California and nationwide.
For most of its 24-year history, the California Health Care Foundation has funded nonprofit health care journalism in California. We believe that quality health care journalism helps drive positive change in California’s health care system and prevents misinformation from gaining traction — and that nonprofit journalism platforms are best suited to accomplish this.
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