Author Archive
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Guide to Online News Startups
Missouri Journal
April 2, 2012 03:42 PMST. LOUIS, MISSOURI — Corporations are people? Maybe, but Brian R. Hook is both. As owner and sole staff member of the online-only <a href=http://www.missourijournal.com/... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
Borderzine.com
March 20, 2012 01:30 PMEL PASO, TEXAS — Borderzine.com director Zita Arocha founded the site at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) with two... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
The Brooklyn Ink
March 15, 2012 11:41 AMNEW YORK, NEW YORK — At about 1:30am on Nov. 15, 2011, student reporters at The Brooklyn Ink received a tip that police... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
The New York World
March 12, 2012 01:58 PMNEW YORK, NEW YORK — Last October 18, the day The New York World went live with a mission to expand journalism education... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
Cronkite News
February 20, 2012 01:54 PMPHOENIX, ARIZONA — Student journalists now learning their trade by filing stories for Cronkite News were born long after Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) signed... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
TownSquareBuzz.com
February 8, 2012 07:43 PMMcKINNEY, TEXAS — TownSquareBuzz.com, an online-only news site in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of McKinney, Texas, owes its existence to president and founder... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
InMaricopa
February 3, 2012 04:54 PMMARICOPA, ARIZONA — When the InMaricopa website launched in 2004, the once-small town of Maricopa, Ariz. was in the midst of a massive... Continue reading
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Guide to Online News Startups
The Arizona Guardian
January 30, 2012 03:07 PMPHOENIX, ARIZONA — Arizona exports political news like other states produce oranges or cheese. When Democratic media consultant Bob Grossfeld and a handful of veteran... Continue reading
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Bio
Tom Marcinko
Tom Marcinko is a writer in Phoenix.
Desks
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
Blog
The Kicker last updated: Wed 12:13 PM
- Pass the #popcorn
- Should Center Square Journal shut down?
- Must-reads of the week
- WaPo: Got agency?
- On building trust
The Future of Media
News Startups Guide last updated: Mon 3:27 PM
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