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Guide to Online News Startups
Colorado Public News
January 28, 2012 01:39 PMDENVER, COLORADO — With layoffs at the Denver Post and the closing of the Rocky Mountain News in 2009, few places have lost as much... Continue reading
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Baltimore Brew
January 13, 2012 11:47 AMBALTIMORE, MARYLAND — After seventeen years as a staff writer and reporter at The Washington Post, Fern Shen opted to take a buyout amid significant... Continue reading
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StarkvilleNow.com
November 11, 2011 11:30 AMSTARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI — As the results of the 2009 Starkville municipal elections rolled in, Robbie Coblentz waited in city hall and posted the results in... Continue reading
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Y’all Politics
October 31, 2011 01:45 PMJACKSON, MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi-based businessman Alan Lange loves politics--so much so that he launched a website in his spare time to cover the 2004 mayoral... Continue reading
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Ocean Beach Bulletin
October 24, 2011 04:44 PMSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — San Francisco is home to one of the largest urban beaches in the country, Ocean Beach. The surrounding neighborhoods, the Sunset... Continue reading
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The Manomet Current
October 21, 2011 10:57 AMPLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS — In addition to being the landing point of the Mayflower, the birthplace of Thanksgiving, and the home of a notorious rock,... Continue reading
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The Saginaw Valley Journal
October 12, 2011 11:51 PMUNIVERSITY CENTER, MICHIGAN — Pinned to the bulletin board at the editorial offices of the Saginaw Valley State University-based Saginaw Valley Journal is... Continue reading
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The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism
August 10, 2011 01:05 PMIOWA CITY, IOWA — Stephen Berry worked for over thirty years as an investigative journalist, a tenure that included a seven year stint as an... Continue reading
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PubliCola
July 29, 2011 01:42 AMSEATTLE, WASHINGTON — Seattle-based online news source PubliCola is named for Publius Valerius Publicola. Publicola is an agnomen meaning "friend of the people,"... Continue reading
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NEast Philly
July 5, 2011 02:37 PMPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — While still an undergraduate journalism major at Temple University, Shannon McDonald launched the hyperlocal NEast Philly, an online only news source that provides... Continue reading
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Seattle PostGlobe (Defunct)
June 3, 2011 11:38 AMSEATTLE, WASHINGTON — [Editor's Note: The Seattle PostGlobe announced that it would cease publication on July 29, 2011. Sally Deneen, the site's co-founder and news curator... Continue reading
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Theme Park Insider
June 1, 2011 12:33 PMPASADENA, CALIFORNIA — Since Disneyland opened in 1955, Americans and pleasure-seekers the world over have flocked to the variety of theme parks that now occupy... Continue reading
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Summit County Citizens Voice
May 17, 2011 11:51 AMFRISCO, COLORADO — The day Bob Berwyn of the Summit County Citizens Voice was scheduled to be interviewed by CJR, he had to beg off... Continue reading
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CTNewsJunkie
May 12, 2011 03:45 PMWINDSOR, CONNECTICUT — Like many married couples, Christine Stuart and Doug Hardy share a weekly ritual. Unlike most married couples, theirs involves obsessing over state politics.... Continue reading
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ThePortlander
May 6, 2011 11:27 AMPORTLAND, OREGON — When the news broke that the former model and millionaire's widow Anna Nicole Smith had died, the story seemed to capture the interest... Continue reading
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DNAinfo
March 28, 2011 08:32 PMNEW YORK, NEW YORK — Manhattan surely has more media outlets per square foot than just about anywhere else in the world, but DNAinfo has... Continue reading
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RVANews
March 25, 2011 02:46 PMRICHMOND, VIRGINIA — In 2007, Ross Catrow and Scott Pharr set out to create an online hub where Richmond residents could have access to the increasing... Continue reading
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The Dagger
March 24, 2011 04:14 PMBEL AIR, MARYLAND — Harford County, Maryland-based journalist Brian Goodman wanted to start a band. He had a name picked out: The Dagger. After plans for... Continue reading
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Prince of Petworth
March 24, 2011 03:43 PMWASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — For the Prince of Petworth, a good stroll is the preferred way to travel. In his pre-blogging days, Dan Silverman would... Continue reading
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TucsonSentinel.com
March 24, 2011 11:50 AMTUCSON, ARIZONA — After a 138-year run, the Tucson Citizen, a daily that reported on such historic events as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral,... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
- Reuters’s OKC gusher Its outstanding Chesapeake Energy investigation turns toward the gas driller SandRidge
- Audit Notes: insider trading versus CDO fraud, 401(k)s, lead and crime Rough treatment for inside-trading suspects contrasts with CDO probes
The Observatory Science
- Environment coverage TBD The Times says it’s committed, but only time will tell
- Call in the math club Science reporters can help ward off a “Big Data bubble”
United States Project Politics & Policy
- The Frank Luntz script for Congressional Republicans A guide to phrases journos should look for (and scrutinize)
- Hey readers: They’re bluffing! (maybe) The need to put political bargaining positions in context
Behind the News The Media
- German bill would charge for aggregation The potential law would provide content creators with a portion of the profits search engines make by aggregating them
- Gun permit data wasn’t maximized The choice that faced the Journal News was not simply whether to map gun permit holders’ addresses, but how
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