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March 24, 2011 12:11 PM
Boise Guardian
Pugnacious reporting on Boise's institutions
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BOISE, IDAHO — The Boise Guardian, a one-man muckracking blog in Boise, Idaho, has developed an outsized influence and a regular following, thanks to the energy of its proprietor/ reporter, Dave Frazier. No friend of city hall, Frazier has an Idaho court decision named after him. In 2005, he sued the city of Boise for taking out a loan on a new police station... -
December 29, 2010 03:47 PM
Capital (New York)
Observer vets hope to "do well by being good"
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK — When Capital launched in beta in June 2010, it joined an ever-swelling scrum of startups crowding the most covered, and coverable, city on Earth. How did Capital's co-founder Josh Benson, a longtime writer and editor at the New York Observer, hope to break out from the pack? You can find his answer on Capital's About page: "The premise of Capital is... -
March 24, 2011 03:22 PM
Delaware First Media News
Nonprofit news in text, audio, and video
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NEWARK, DELAWARE — Delaware First Media News, an independent news site specializing in news and commentary about goings-on in Diamond State, grew from seeds planted in the nonprofit sector. As explained by Micheline Boudreau, DFM's president and a former news director of a public television station in Delaware, all of the journalists who came together to create the website began in nonprofit journalism--a fact... -
December 8, 2010 03:40 PM
FactCheck.org
A "consumer advocate" for voters
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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — In a world of 140-character tweets and political attack ads posted on YouTube, information has become easier to access and easier to release. It's also become more difficult to discern between what information is true and what is false. FactCheck.org rose to the challenge of making those calls in political discourse leading up to the 2004 election and has continued to... -
January 5, 2011 04:17 PM
Fair Warning
Consumer-oriented investigative journalism
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — As the Los Angeles Times newsroom braced itself for another round of buyouts in 2008, Myron Levin, an investigative reporter who had tracked corporate misconduct and lax government regulation for the paper for years, thought hard about what he wanted to do with his career. He took a few walks around the block, talked it over with some colleagues, and then finally... -
March 24, 2011 03:38 PM
Gapers Block
Chicago's first city-wide news and culture blog
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Today, Gapers Block is a smartly designed Chicago blog with everything you'd expect to see on a web-specific and geographically focused publication: there's an events calendar, as well as tabs for food, arts, music, and politics. But if Gapers Block looks typical, that's only because of its own influence on the "city blog" genre. When it launched in 2003, Gapers Block... -
March 24, 2011 10:50 PM
Hispanic Nashville
News for a community within a community
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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — The rise of the Internet, along with some significant (and not coincidental) old-media belt-tightening, has inspired many a traditional journalist to look for work on the web. But that's not the story of Hispanic Nashville. John Lamb created the blog in 2003 as a means of highlighting local media coverage of Nashville's Hispanic community, and has developed the site into... -
March 24, 2011 03:48 PM
Inside the Hall
The go-to site for Hoosier basketball fanatics
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BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA — What began as a couple buddies blogging about their passion for their alma mater has grown into a mecca for fans of Indiana University basketball. Inside the Hall is the perfect web resource for a region known for its devout basketball culture. Started by Alex Bozich, Ryan Corazza, and Eamonn Brennan in 2007 as a hobby, the site soon grew to... -
January 5, 2011 04:26 PM
InvestigateWest
Investigative journalism for the Pacific Northwest
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — Seattle's InvestigateWest may have a small budget and a tiny newsroom--but the organization's impact consistently belies its size. Founded in 2009, the small investigative nonprofit led by former Seattle Post-Intelligencer staffer Rita Hibbard has emerged as a major player in regional journalism, reporting on everything from chronic homelessness to the widespread poisoning of children by rat poison.... -
January 4, 2011 01:20 PM
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
Filling the reporting gap in Maine's state capital
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HALLOWELL, MAINE — As the number of reporters covering Maine state government dropped from twenty in 1989 to fewer than ten today, a wife-and-husband duo, two old-school reporters, stepped up. In 2010, Naomi Schalit, a former reporter and producer at Maine Public Radio, and John Christie, former president and publisher of Central Maine Newspapers, launched the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a watchdog... -
March 24, 2011 04:45 PM
Nevada News Bureau
Think tank-funded statehouse news for the Battle Born State
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HENDERSON, NEVADA — The Nevada News Bureau is a nonprofit organization launched in October 2009 to cover state politics and statehouse news and provide its work free of charge to other outlets in the Battle Born State. It was originally formed under the auspices of Citizen Outreach, a conservative nonprofit think tank run by Chuck Muth, Nevada's leading conservative anti-tax activist. The Bureau was... -
March 24, 2011 12:49 PM
Oklahoma Watch
An investigative nonprofit for the Sooner State
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NORMAN, OKLAHOMA — Oklahoma Watch is a nonprofit investigative reporting website launched in December 2010 under editor Tom Lindley, a veteran of the state's two major daily papers, the Oklahoman and the Tulsa World--credentials that Lindley says got him the job, as the two papers share resources with Oklahoma Watch and the editors of both papers sit on its executive board. Lindley says Oklahoma... -
March 24, 2011 11:45 AM
Ozarks Unbound
One man (and three contributors) in the wide world of northwest Arkansas
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FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS — The challenges have been twofold for Christopher Spencer, the veteran reporter who founded Ozarks Unbound after he was laid off from his gig at the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas. The first, simply, is revenue. The second is establishing a journalistic brand when there's only one of him (with three contributors) cranking out news about northwest Arkansas, a metro region of... -
March 25, 2011 03:02 AM
PlanPhilly
Reporting on urban planning and Philadelphia's changing neighborhoods
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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — PlanPhilly is a news website providing in-depth coverage of the city's built environment. The site was launched in 2006 to cover the planning process for the Delaware River waterfront. PennPraxis, a planning consultancy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, asked journalist Matt Golas, former metro editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, to come in and give them some advice. He... -
January 3, 2011 05:17 PM
PopMatters
Pop culture criticism with an academic bent
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Back when the Internet was still the sole purview of academics and nerds, journalist Sarah Zupko, then working in marketing at Tribune Media Services, founded a site catering to those specific audiences. That site was not in fact PopMatters, but it was a progenitor of sorts, providing web links for researchers studying pop culture. During the years that followed, Zupko's interests... -
January 21, 2011 03:25 PM
Portland Afoot
Portland-based transportation advocacy
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PORTLAND, OREGON — In a culture where the car is often the primary mode of transportation, the web/print hybrid Portland Afoot has set out to inform Portland citizens about the wide world of transportation alternatives. After leaving his job as a reporter for The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., founder Michael Andersen felt that he could attract a devoted audience for a new journalism venture... -
January 4, 2011 01:59 PM
Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network
Investigative journalism with statewide import and local impact
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DENVER, COLORADO — On December 16, 2010, Laura Frank, the executive director of the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network, delivered her commencement speech for the University of Colorado's soon-to-be-defunct journalism school. Frank was optimistic about the future of the industry: "I now recognize you actually are embarking on this adventure at one of the most exciting times - perhaps the most exciting time... -
January 3, 2011 06:03 PM
Slant
Omnivorous pop culture criticism
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WEEHAWKEN, NEW JERSEY — Founded in 2001 as an outlet for its editors' frustrations with their day jobs, Slant Magazine began humbly as a two-man online reviewing operation, with Ed Gonzalez writing about film and Sal Cinquemani writing about music. The two covered only a smattering of the biggest releases in each field, but as other writers began volunteering to work for the site,... -
January 5, 2011 06:08 PM
Streetsblog
Public transportation reporters/advocates in NYC, DC, LA, and SF
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Transport-obsessed site Streetsblog--which focuses on everything from bike lines to subway fare hikes--was born, appropriately, in transport-obsessed New York City. Originally launched in 2006 by Aaron Naparstek, it has since branched out to cover transportation in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Streetsblog has its origins in the advocacy movement, focusing on local... -
March 24, 2011 04:14 PM
The Dagger
Sharp local reporting for Harford County, Md.
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BEL 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 the band fizzled, Goodman decided to take the name and start a local news blog instead. The journalistic ensemble known as The Dagger officially debuted in April of 2007, and has since evolved into a popular alternative news resource... -
March 24, 2011 12:04 PM
The Iowa Independent
An early member of the American Independent News Network, all grown up
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DES MOINES, IOWA — When Jason Hancock joined the Iowa Independent in the summer of 2008, he was part of a transition for the publication that had been established less than a year before. Originally part of an American Independent News Network (AINN) program that offered short-term funding and training for progressive blogs, the Iowa Independent and sister publications in Colorado and... -
March 24, 2011 12:07 PM
The Iowa Republican
Reporting-heavy partisan news
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DES MOINES, IOWA — While serving as political director of the Republican Party of Iowa in 2007, Craig Robinson had one of those out-there, against-the-grain ideas that rarely survive the journey from imagination to reality. Republicans, he recalls, were having big problems in terms of media coverage. "It wasn't that we didn't have people in our state doing good stuff, it... -
January 19, 2011 04:42 PM
The Locust Fork News-Journal
A one-man purveyor of mobile journalism performance art
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BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA — The Locust Fork News-Journal, like many websites, is wholly devoted to the quirks, whims, emotions, and talents of its founder--in this case, a former newspaper reporter and self-proclaimed champion of the "independent watchdog Web press" named Glynn Wilson. Unlike most sites (including many owned by the "corporate media" Wilson rails against) the News-Journal is stable and profitable--a testament to what can... -
January 4, 2011 02:10 PM
The Watchdog Institute
Investigative journalism for San Diego and beyond
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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — Investigative editor Lorie Hearn does it all. She runs the business, raises the funds, edits the stories, does the books, and dusts the office. She even brings the bagels and cream cheese. Hearn, a former editor for the San Diego Union-Tribune, now leads The Watchdog Institute, a three-person nonprofit investigative outlet run out of San Diego State University. The site... -
March 24, 2011 11:50 AM
Tucson Sentinel
Continuing an underdog media legacy in Tucson
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TUCSON, 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, closed its doors in May of 2009. Dylan Smith, the Citizen's online editor, was among the many journalists displaced by the paper's disbanding. Not content to let the Arizona Daily Star claim victory in Tucson's newspaper war, Smith undertook what... -
March 25, 2011 03:09 AM
VTDigger.org
Deep coverage for the Green Mountain State
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MONTPELIER, VERMONT — As the name suggests, VTDigger (pronounced "V.T. Digger," not "Vermont Digger") aims to provide deep coverage of local issues in the Green Mountain State. "I wanted to follow stories in-depth," explains Anne Galloway, the publication's editor-in-chief. "Not all of our stories are investigative; but we want them all to go deep." While it's not all hard-hitting political stories--the day after Christmas, Digger... -
January 5, 2011 07:19 PM
WyoFile
Enterprise reporting for the Equality State
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CASPER, WYOMING — Even though WyoFile covers the goings-on of the least populous state in the union, it still finds plenty of stories to tell. Launched in 2008 by former Los Angeles Times reporter Rone Tempest and entrepreneur Christopher Findlater, the site features a plethora of in-depth, locally focused reporting: a profile of Casper's last locally owned grocery store; a look at the... -
January 4, 2011 03:45 PM
Yale Environment 360
In-depth environmental news, commentary, and analysis
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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine that publishes long-form environmental journalism by prominent reporters, academics, and policymakers. A nonprofit backed primarily by two heavyweight philanthropic foundations, e360, as it's known, isn't subject to the market pressures squeezing many outlets. That leaves its full-time staff of three to focus on producing in-depth news, commentary, and analysis--and, more recently, extended video reports--on a...
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