Foundation for success

In the scramble to find new business models for newspapers, some see charitable foundations as the way to keep newspapers afloat. But in what may be the poorest region in the nation's poorest state, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal is one of the financial engines of a foundation that's helping improve the lives of its readers. With a workforce of approximately 200, Journal Publishing circulates 35,000 copies daily and 23,000 weekly. Judging by surveys of its peers by Inland Press Association, the Daily Journal and its siblings have always run lean and did not need to do the kind of drastic cost-cutting of other papers.