La Presse throws down the news industry gauntlet. The Desmarais family, owners of the French-language outlet that gave up on print, will donate $50 million to keep La Presse afloat as a non-profit if certain rules in Quebec are rewritten. If they are, the move is expected to have implications for other struggling publishers, even though Torstar claims to have a transformation strategy that isn’t reliant upon government grants. Rather than hoping for Silicon Valley to solve all the woes, though, Ottawa is still promising to back changes: