Pros
Below the top layer the employees are nice, funny, smart people. Work-life balance is good for online journalism. Progressive mission and no pressure to meet traffic targets or anything like that.
Cons
This place is mismanaged even by the low standards of non-profit journalism. In 3 years it has had 4 different executive editors. It hired a CEO and then lost him within months. It takes months or even years to fill crucial vacancies. Editing staff is constantly over-stretched and editors frequently leave without even having another job lined up because they are so unhappy. There are constant wild vacillations in editorial strategy, accompanied by long boring discussions about mission and approach that yield no result. Your job responsibilities can be downgraded from what you were hired to do. The founder meddles in coverage in a manner that is unhelpful, time-wasting, and disrespectful to the people who actually produce daily journalism. There is no job security, even if you work hard, perform well, and get overwhelmingly positive feedback from supervisors. Severance agreements are tiny and require you to sign away a bunch of rights or get nothing at all. Funders dictate what subjects are covered.