Jeff Howe the author of Crowdsourcing said we should all be looking to NPR‘s business model a few months ago on a new media panel. That stuck with me. In this month’s Fast Company Anya Kamenetz reports:

Yes, it’s true: In one of the great under-told media success stories of the past decade, NPR has emerged not as the bespectacled schoolmarm of our imagination but as a massive news machine poised for what Dick Meyer, editorial director for digital media, half-jokingly calls “world domination.” NPR’s listenership has nearly doubled since 1999, even as newspaper circulation dropped off a cliff.

[fast company]