Magda Konieczna was a reporter at the Guelph Mercury before becoming an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University. She is the author of Journalism Without Profit: Making News When the Market Fails, published by Oxford University Press.
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When many of my former colleagues at the Guelph Mercury were laid off in 2009, I got in touch to see whether they…