News Feed: By Geoff Rynex: Geoff Dougherty had had enough.
No more working hard to uncover a story, sometimes for a year, only to have it pulled at the last minute.
No more bosses. No more corporate interests getting in the way of solid investigative journalism.
No more Chicago Tribune.
After more than a decade in the mainstream media, Dougherty decided to call it quits at the Tribune last Novembver and start up his own news organization. The website he created took the name of a legendary Chicago paper: the Daily News.
With the Chi-Town Daily News, Dougherty saw an opportunity to do everything he thought the mainstream media was failing to do, especially in the realm of the Internet.
"That’s really where the future of the industry lies, so my thought was 'Well, rather than wait around ten years to see how that develops, why not actually be in a position to develop it?'" Dougherty said.
In the mainstream media, Dougherty saw a trend of newspapers striving to meet the demands of Wall Street at the expense of the readers and at the cost of quality. He was dismayed to see newsrooms cutting staff and stories in order to maximize profits.
"There’s an assumption embedded in that which ...