In Austin we have the fabulous Austin Monitor [1]. You want to know whether Commissioners Court is going to add shoulders to your county road? The Monitor's you

In Austin we have the fabulous Austin Monitor [1]. You want to know whether Commissioners Court is going to add shoulders to your county road? The Monitor's your destination. And on the topic of sponsored content, I just visited it, and found this editorial comment: "I’ll use this space to note that, while sponsorship revenue is key to our survival, we remain hesitant to test the waters of sponsored content for the Monitor. Many – most? – of our colleagues around the news publication world have settled on this concept as a way to quickly boost revenue in an ecosystem starved for it. But we worry about the impact it would have on our credibility. "That said, we’ve experimented with a version of what the Voice of San Diego calls “Partner Voices,” a space for sponsored content from area nonprofits. To make this work – read: to keep it off the Monitor‘s page – we figured we’d post it on the CoTMF website. Thus far, we’ve found little interest, but we’re happy to continue to entertain the idea."[2] [1] http://www.austinmonitor.com http://www.austinmonitor.com [2] http://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/03/publishers-note-whispers-more-sponsorships-and-watson-and-alder-on-transportation/ http://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/03/publishers-note...