The News Frontier Database
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Recently Added / Updated
The online news outlets below were recently added to the News Frontier Database, or updated. If you'd like to recommend an organization for inclusion in the NFDB, let us know via email here. If you operate a news outlet and would like your organization to be included, click here.
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May 12, 2011 03:45 PM
CTNewsJunkie
Giving the good stuff to Connecticut's political insiders
WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT — Like many married couples, Christine Stuart and Doug Hardy share a weekly ritual. Unlike most married couples, theirs involves obsessing over state politics. Stuart and Hardy spend their Thursday nights preparing the "Friday Night Fix." The "Fix" is a weekly e-mail roundup of Connecticut political news, covering everything from the state's most recent budget battle to the fate of a particular piece of...
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May 10, 2011 04:29 PM
The Batavian
Small town news and innovation in local online advertising
BATAVIA, NEW YORK — The Batavian began as an experimental project by GateHouse Media, a newspaper publisher with properties in twenty states. The company wanted to launch a community-oriented news website, and chose Batavia, N.Y. because of its proximity to the company's Fairport, N.Y. headquarters; an added bonus was that The Daily News, the local paper for Batavia and Genesee County, lacked...
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May 6, 2011 11:27 AM
ThePortlander
Portland-centric news with a casual flair
PORTLAND, 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 of virtually every local TV station, major news network, and newspaper. But all Jeff Martens of Portland, Ore. wanted to know was the score of the previous night's high school basketball game. Frustrated by Smith's death dominating the seeming entirety...
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May 3, 2011 12:23 PM
DavidsonNews.net
Ambitious local news site for Davidson, N.C.
DAVIDSON, NORTH CAROLINA — David Boraks, a veteran journalist of thirty years and long-time resident of Davidson, N.C., started DavidsonNews.net after returning from a year abroad in China and Taiwan. Upon returning home, Boraks found that staying updated on current news was not as easy as he had remembered, and so he started an online town newsletter. The newsletter soon evolved into a full-blown...
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May 2, 2011 04:17 PM
Technically Philly
Detalied coverage of the Philadelphia tech scene
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — Like so many young journalism school graduates, Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk, and Christopher Wink could not find jobs in 2008. Philadelphia's two dailies had shed hundreds of positions, and plenty of highly experienced older reporters were ready to apply for anything that opened up. The job market was, "in a word, awful," says Blanda. "The three of us felt like we...
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April 20, 2011 03:02 PM
Sites Included in the NFDB
So far...
This is a complete, alphabetized list of all the sites currently listed in the News Frontier Database. Although we're now happily north of 100 entries, the NFDB is still in beta, and will be forever in the sense that we're continuingly adding sites with no intention of stopping. (When the time comes, we'll also be updating the information in existing entries.) The current makeup of the NFDB is by no means comprehensive. There are still many, many worthy operations...
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April 20, 2011 02:57 PM
Solutions
Colorado's source for health policy reporting and discussion
DENVER, COLORADO — Solutions, launched on December 1st, 2010, is an independent, nonprofit news platform on health policy issues in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West. Solutions draws its inspiration from the format and niche content of another local news site, Education News Colorado. According to Solutions editor Diane Carman, the site "avoids the political back and forth that traditional media covers...
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April 5, 2011 01:06 PM
Intersections South Los Angeles
USC students report on their neighboring communities
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — When conservative Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly needs a sparring partner on immigration issues, his producers occasionally turn to a totally under-the-radar nonprofit news site, Intersections South Los Angeles. The two-year-old site, a hybrid of hyperlocal reporting and user-generated news, runs on grant and university funds and operates out of the University of Southern California. Editor-in-chief Willa Seidenberg, a journalism...
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March 31, 2011 11:40 AM
The Bold Italic
Gannett's bold move in consumer-oriented journalism
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The Bold Italic is an experiment. Slickly designed but still in "beta," the Gannett-owned San Francisco website has an image-heavy layout, an alt-weekly feel, and a focus on helping its readers find new places to spend their free time. "It's not meant to replace anything" in the San Francisco print media, says Michael Maness, who, as Gannett's vice president of...
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March 28, 2011 08:32 PM
DNAinfo
Hyperlocal news for Manhattan
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Manhattan surely has more media outlets per square foot than just about anywhere else in the world, but DNAinfo has proved that there's still plenty of room on the island for local news. Conceived by Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, the site is a compendium of hyperlocal news for Manhattan's many communities. The site's ten separate verticals provide coverage of neighborhoods...
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The News Frontier Database
Welcome (Back)!
to the News Frontier Database
...a searchable, living, and ongoing documentation of digital news outlets across the country. As when we launched in January, the database features originally reported profiles and extensive data sets on each outlet. We've recently added profiles of more than forty local news sites throughout the country, and will soon feature at least one site from each of the fifty states.
To learn more, please click the link below.
Recent Posts
The News Frontier
- Q&A;: Douglas Arthur on Paywalls “People spend hundreds of dollars on Amazon without thinking twice about it.”
- Q&A;: Evan Ratliff of The Atavist “I don’t really care whether attention spans are getting shorter.”
- Q&A;: Andrea Miller of YourTango “Gaming mechanics will become the next interesting frenzy around media.”
- Q&A;: Walker Evans of Columbus Underground “We try to shape our editorial calendar around our audience”
- “The Story So Far” Panel with Ken Auletta
- Q&A;: Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves on the Changing Business of News “Philanthropic or government support can’t fund journalism in the way that we’re used to.”
- New Media Goes Door to Door in the Deep South After a year and a half, Birmingham news site Weld is cleared for launch
- COIN Stars Counterinsurgency bloggers help set the Afghanistan agenda