Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism released a report today on the future of news, and Next Door Media was included as one of the country’s promising journalism startups. We’re honored to be included, and we agree with the report’s goal to preserve “independent, original, credible reporting.” But we disagree with one of the report’s conclusions that supports a government subsidy of journalism. We believe there’s a promising, profitable future for local journalism through innovation and lots of hard work, as we’re beginning to show with Next Door Media.