Certainly stable funding for small newspapers would be particularly interesting in a program to hire sales managers, advertising sales managers, because time after time, once that sales manager is hired, the stability of a newspaper is far more assured.
Going back to your youth question, I wanted to mention that although readership might be predominantly adults, people who work at newspapers tend to be young. These are freelancers of every department, whether young graphic designers, or young journalists who spend a couple of years in local media before they move over to the bigger companies--