Another publicly funded investigative journalism site is born. It identifies itself as being in the same tradition as the New Haven Independent created at Yale.***

This one is in San Diego and staffed by a former editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune. It is reported by The Voice of San Diego, a non-profit news site.

Weird to think that colleges and universities could replace corporations as control centers of news and information, but I think a non-profit model better suits the journalist mission.

***John Ferraro corrects this reference: That  New England reference in  the San Diego online paper was more likely to the New England Center For Investigative Reporting at Boston University, which works closely with the Globe and other Boston-area media outlets on long-term investigative stories and has among the many Pulitzer winners on its board of directors our own Lisa Chedekel.