Okay, so layoffs stink.
But in St. Louis, there’s an interesting experiment by former Post-Dispatch staffers, taking a page from folks in Chicago.
…the Platform’s been given offices at the local public TV station, KETC, whose CEO, Jack Galmiche, says: “We’re creating a new model between a public television station and an online daily news source.” Adds Freivogel: “We’ll go down the road of doing things together and seeing where it leads.” Staffers will appear on camera, bringing the site to the attention of the public—at least the sliver of the public that watches public television.
When talk in mainstream journalism is of death spirals, “to be in the midst of something being born is fantastic,” says Freivogel. Twenty years ago you all might have decided to start another paper, I say. “But it costs so much to do that,” she replies. “Here the cost of getting in the game is pretty modest”—about $26,000 to set up shop, she estimates.
If you have $26,000 you wouldn’t mind parting with, please email saveourpress.org. 
Seriously.
