Entrepreneurial journalism -- it ain't easy, but it's meaningful, fun and pays the bills

A wonderful must-read for jurnos from a Michael Anderson post about the Ann Arbor Chronicle. The post appeared on the Nieman Lab blog:

"Creating 10 heavily reported and edited posts a week, maintaining the site’s daily news digests and gossip feature, editing three regular columnists and selling the ads to support it all requires “literally every waking hour” the couple has, Chronicle editor Dave Askins said.

Askins, 44, “sometimes works through the night,” said publisher Mary Morgan, 48, who says she’s dropped 50 pounds since launching the business last year. “I can’t swing that.”

Could you? If so, here’s a 10-point glance at the daily and weekly routines and rules Morgan and Askins used to build one of the nation’s first sustainable, hyperlocal Web startups."