Romenesko

SF Weekly
The 4,000-circulation Point Reyes Light -- it won a Pulitzer in 1979 for its work in exposing the Synanon cult -- hasn't been profitable since 2001, says owner Dave Mitchell. "Through four failed marriages and recurrent bouts of depression, Mitchell has kept a secret about his little newspaper," writes Ron Russell. "During all these years, when the Light has needed money, he has subsidized it from an inheritance he received when his father died in 1984. And now, he confides, the money is nearly gone."