Jerome a Paris:

They've been behind most of the major scandals in France over the past 40 years.

Presumably you mean they have exposed them rather than been behind them!

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How do they do it?  Any articles on it?  Do they have a big endowment?  I am aware of at least one newspaper that was turned into a ESOP to benefit the staff by the daughter and son-in-law of the last "for profit" publisher.  I would think that this sort of model, rather like what was described for The Irish Times, could be a good one.  The bigger the endowment the better, but I suspect the arrangement would have to be set up during the lifetime of the benefactor in order for it to have a chance to endure.  Many interests would have a strong desire to neuter if not smother such enterprises.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."