The American news world that many people are nostalgic for had only three networks, which were required to speak in a nonpartisan voice and to do money-losing public-service journalism in return for the renewal of their valuable government licenses.
But Hughes, who amassed a staggering $700 million fortune after co-founding Facebook, made Foer an irresistible offer: a big budget and a firm commitment to long-form journalism: "To return to a magazine that is not just growing," Foer enthuses, "but has big ambitions for what it wants to accomplish feels like a once in a lifetime opportunity.
After Cheltenham Ladies College, and Oxford, she considered journalism but returned to London to take a postgraduate course at the London School of Economics.
Our special report on the news industry, published on July 7th, examines in closer detail the ways in which journalism is returning to its roots.
"Are you totally out of your mind?" was the general response from friends when I told them I was giving up journalism and returning to social work to work in child protection after a 20 year break.
Monty Munford has more than 15 years' experience in mobile, digital media, web and journalism and returned to the UK in September, 2010 after living in India for two years.
… Monty Munford has more than 15 years' experience in mobile, digital media, web and journalism and returned to the UK in September, 2010 after living in India for two years.
I went back to journalism until her return to office in 1993, when as her press assistant I accompanied her on foreign visits to over 25 countries.
However, the attack on the national stations may well have serious effects on regional journalism, including a return to the self-censorship that was such a noticeable feature of the Soviet decades.
After her foray into journalism, Carnie Holdsworth returned to Lancashire and decided poetry no longer met her expressive needs.
