ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that media sociologists and journalism studies scholars should consider approaching the investigation of nonprofit news differently than in the past. It shows that at nonprofit news organizations, the political ideology of journalists is absolutely affecting news content. The book illustrates how nonprofit organizations actually have an anti-timeliness news value. It also illustrates how a reporter at a nonprofit held a big story that, if broken, would have resulted in the kind of attention that legacy media crave. The book explores data that supports the idea that the organizational level of analysis could reside above the social institutional level in the hierarchy of influences. It also explores how the disruptions in practice due to nonprofit journalism should impact how scholars of journalism studies theorize the hierarchy of influences model.
