Latest podcast interviews founder of initiative to help local newspapers

While several major newspapers have found a new source of revenue from digital subscribers far from their home base, local newspapers are hurting as subscribers and advertisers flee. To survive, they are cutting staffs to the bone.

An organization, Report for America, has been created to finance one-year stipends for professional journalists who would like the experience of working for a local paper. Applications from both reporters and editors have flooded in.

On the current edition of the National Press Club's podcast, Update-1, Broadcast/Podcast Team member Irv Chapman interviews Report for America’s co-founder Steven Waldman, who explains how the site works. Waldman, a former reporter and editor for Newsweek and U.S. News and creator of the successful website, BeliefNet, discusses the role of philanthropy in advancing journalism.

Update-1 is produced by Mike Hempen. The podcast can be heard here or on iTunes, Stitcher and TuneIn.