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August 8, 2011 11:49 AM
Deadspin
Gawker Media's sports news success story
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — For Deadspin, the impish sports wing of the Gawker empire, the presence of a pink gorilla at a hotel meeting between Tommy Craggs, a Deadspin senior editor, and John Walsh, ESPN's executive vice president for content, must have felt like a crowning achievement. The site made its name most recently by publishing pictures of...
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August 1, 2011 11:53 AM
ClearHealthCosts.com
Guiding consumers through the health care marketplace
PELHAM, NEW YORK — Jeanne Pinder had a storied career in print journalism: she was born into a newspaper family and spent twenty-three years at The New York Times. But today Pinder is venturing into new territory by founding a start-up website that aims to bring transparency and accountability to the health care marketplace. ClearHealthCosts.com was launched in beta form by Pinder in...
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July 29, 2011 01:42 AM
PubliCola
Extensive political coverage for Seattle and Washington state
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — Seattle-based online news source PubliCola is named for Publius Valerius Publicola. Publicola is an agnomen meaning "friend of the people," and P.V. Publicola was one of four Roman aristocrats credited with establishing the first Roman Republic by helping to overthrow the Roman monarchy--the Federalist Papers were published under the pseudonym "Publius" in his honor. As a news site, PubliCola serves...
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July 28, 2011 03:16 PM
Rust Wire
Reporting on urban and social issues in the Rust Belt
CLEVELAND, OHIO — Rust Wire, a collaborative media project which bills itself as "a voice for change in the Industrial Midwest," was founded in 2009 by Angie Schmitt and Kate Giammarise in order to challenge the notion that some economically enfeebled towns in the Midwestern United States "weren't worth saving." The site, which features original reporting and photography, first-person essays, and opinion...
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July 27, 2011 02:53 PM
A2Politico
Accountability journalism in Ann Arbor, Mich.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN — When the daily Ann Arbor News announced in July 2009 that it would be cutting back publication to two days a week and firing a vast majority of its staff, the college town of Ann Arbor, Mich. suddenly became, after 174 years, a city without a daily newspaper. That's when Patricia Lesko, a higher-education book publisher and thirty-year resident, saw an...
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July 27, 2011 02:48 PM
Gotham Gazette
Detailed reporting on New York City governance
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — It's no secret that many Americans are shamefully uninformed about their elected representatives, particularly at the local level. The blame for this can often go as much to local press as to citizens themselves, but thanks to Gotham Gazette, an online source for what's happening in the world of NYC government, citizens of the nation's largest metropolis will...
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July 26, 2011 08:20 AM
Innovation Trail
Public radio takes to the web to cover upstate New York's transitioning economy
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK — Fifty years ago the economy of upstate New York was rooted in industry and manufacturing, but in recent decades these sectors have dramatically declined. In the 1980s alone, hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs were lost, according to the Albany Times Union. "Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse were heavy industrial areas," says journalist Juan Vazquez. "A lot of the economy was based on...
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July 25, 2011 04:00 PM
Universal Hub
A wicked smart Boston hyperlocal
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — What started as a simple online directory of businesses, restaurants, and other establishments serving Boston has grown into a full-blown hub of Beantown information. After a layoff prompted him to take his side project full-time, Adam Gaffin set about building Universal Hub into a hyperlocal news hub with an original Boston twist. If you want the day's biggest stories, stick...
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July 21, 2011 05:46 PM
Common Language Project
In-depth human rights reporting and multimedia storytelling
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON —In 2005, three friends on their way to becoming freshly anointed college grads had an idea. They were budding journalists with global ambitions who didn't want to sit on their hands while foreign coverage in American newspapers continued to fade. The three, Sarah Stuteville, Alex Stonehill, and Jessica Partnow, decided to take a trip to about a dozen countries in Southeast Asia and...
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July 21, 2011 12:18 PM
Sports Gab Network
A network of over seventy sports blogs with a special focus on the NFL
MOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY — An increasingly large player in the world of sports fan blogs, the Sports Gab Network has been one of several such news sites in the past couple of years to give many of the traditional online sports news sites a run for their money. The site was founded with just one contributor in 2006, when an NFL blog written...
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July 20, 2011 12:47 PM
The Forum
Local news for four small New Hampshire towns
DEERFIELD, NEW HAMPSHIRE — When Denise Greig and some colleagues founded New Hampshire-based digital newspaper The Forum in 2005, web-based journalism hadn't really made its way to the rural communities that it served. "When we took on [this project], we were explaining the Internet to our funders," laughs Greig, the current chair of The Forum's board of directors. Six years later, with The Forum...
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July 18, 2011 04:18 PM
E&E; Publishing
High-cost subscription coverage of environment and energy policy and markets
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — Launched in 1998, E&E; Publishing started with six employees producing high-priced subscription energy policy coverage out of Washington D.C. and has grown into an award-winning online news outlet with an editorial staff of forty-five and bureaus in San Francisco and New York City. Over the years, the company's readership has grown from roughly 1,000 to 40,000, and includes...
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July 18, 2011 11:55 AM
paidContent
Covering the business of digital media since 2002
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — In 2008, when Guardian News & Media bought Rafat Ali's ContentNext Media, Ali wrote that the acquisition marked the "2.0 phase" of his company. It was an aptly webby phrase from the man who six years earlier founded ContentNext's flagship site, paidContent.org, with the aim of obsessively covering the economics of the then just-emerging world...
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July 15, 2011 11:39 AM
HealthNewsReview.org
A watchdog for health care journalism
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA — The job of a health care reporter is to provide accurate, objective coverage of the health care industry. Yet in Gary Schwitzer's opinion, that rarely happens in the American media. "The marketing forces in health care are so overwhelming even good journalists may not realize they're being sold a bill of goods when they are," says Schwitzer, a former news reporter for...
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July 13, 2011 12:54 PM
LymeLine
Hyperlocal news for two small Connecticut towns
OLD LYME, CONNECTICUT — Founded in 2003 by veteran publisher Jack Turner and now headed by news editor Olwen Logan, LymeLine had the humble beginnings one might expect for a site that covers two towns (Lyme and Old Lyme) with a combined population of fewer than 10,000. When Turner first decided to venture into the world of online journalism, paperless news had yet to...
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Sports Gab Network
A network of over seventy sports blogs with a special focus on the NFL
MOUNT LAUREL, NEW JERSEY -- An increasingly large player in the world of sports fan blogs, the Sports Gab Network has been one of several such news sites in the past couple of years to give many of the traditional online sports news sites a run for their money. The site was founded with just one contributor in 2006, when an NFL blog written from the perspective of a man on the street (and not a man in a press box) was still refreshingly novel. Since then, the site has gone from five hundred visitors in its first month to 600,000 unique visitors a month now according to the site's own numbers, and the site itself has expanded from a single blog known as NFL Gridiron Gab to seventy-one individual blogs, including one for each NFL team in the league.
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- A2Politico Accountability journalism in Ann Arbor, Mich.
- Alaska Dispatch Enterprise reporting from the Last Frontier
- All Over Albany Conversational news, events, and culture for the New York capital region
- Ars Technica The old guard of tech news, mixing context, the long view, and a sense of humor
- The Awl NYC-based cultural witticism from two Gawker alumni
- Baristanet Conversational hyperlocal news for New Jersey’s Essex County
- The Batavian Small town news and innovation in local online advertising
- The Beachwood Reporter A belligerently informed take on Chicago media, sports, and culture
- Bleacher Report A sports news behemoth where fans do the writing, reporting, and search engine optimization
- Boise Guardian Pugnacious reporting on Boise’s institutions
- The Bold Italic Gannett’s bold move in consumer-oriented journalism
- Broward Bulldog Nonprofit investigative journalism for Broward County, Fla.
- Calbuzz No-holds-barred political analysis
- California Watch A watchdog for the Golden State
- CapeCodTODAY.com A hyperlocal (and entrepreneurial) news pioneer
- Capital (New York) Observer vets hope to “do well by being good”
- CaryCitizen Proud proponents of upbeat hyperlocal news
- Center For Investigative Reporting Old-school investigative nonprofit takes to the web
- The Center for Public Integrity Twenty years’ worth of investigative journalism for the public welfare
- The Chicago News Cooperative Newspaper-style journalism for the Chicagoland area
- ClearHealthCosts.com Guiding consumers through the healthcare marketplace
- Columbus Underground Entertainment and events coverage with a civic bent
- Common Language Project In-depth human rights reporting and multimedia storytelling
- The Connecticut Mirror Former Courant staffers step up to fill the state’s hard news gap
- Crosscut.com Robust nonprofit local news coverage for Seattle
- CTNewsJunkie Giving the good stuff to Connecticut’s political insiders
- CU-CitizenAccess University-based reporting on poverty in central Illinois
- The Dagger Sharp local reporting for Harford County, Md.
- The Daily Caller Tucker Carlson and co.’s political reporting startup
- The Daily Yonder Local rural news on a national level. Yes, you heard right.
- DavidsonNews.net Ambitious local news site for Davidson, N.C.
- Deadspin Gawker Media's sports news success story
- Delaware First Media News Nonprofit news in text, audio, and video
- DNAinfo Hyperlocal news for Manhattan
- DoD Buzz A (mostly) one-man show reporting on the Pentagon
- ecoRI Community engagement through environmental news (and composting)
- Education News Colorado The “paper of record” for Colorado education policymaking
- E&E; Publishing High-cost subscription coverage of environment and energy policy and markets
- FactCheck.org A “consumer advocate” for voters
- FailedMessiah.com News and investigations from within ultra-orthodox Judaism
- Fair Warning Consumer-oriented investigative journalism
- Fayetteville Flyer A music site that made the leap to general news
- FITSNews Impolitic South Carolina political news
- Florida Center for Investigative Reporting A pioneer bilingual investigative nonprofit
- The Florida Independent Legislative watchdogging and more
- The Forum Local news for four small New Hampshire towns
- Front Porch Forum Social networking and citizen journalism in northern Vermont
- Gapers Block Chicago’s first city-wide news and culture blog
- Gawker Pioneers of Internet snark branch out toward general interest news
- GigaOm The site offers predictive technology coverage, and has itself been a leader in earning web revenue
- GlobalPost A new news agency helping to fill the gaps in foreign reporting
- Gotham Gazette Detailed reporting on New York City governance
- Gothamist A pioneer of the city blog format
- GothamSchools Original reporting on the largest school system in the country
- Great Lakes Echo Sharp science news with a sense of humor
- Grist Irreverent online environmental magazine offers in-depth reporting with “secret sauce”
- HealthNewsReview.org A watchdog for health care journalism
- Hispanic Nashville News for a community within a community
- Hollywood Elsewhere One man channeling a "daily stream-of-Hollywood-consciousness"
- Honolulu Civil Beat A journalistic “civic square”
- The Huffington Post The online news behemoth grows up
- IGN The web’s definitive video game press
- indieWIRE Independent film news for fans, filmmakers, and insiders
- Inner City Press A one-man show reporting on the United Nations
- Innovation Trail Public radio takes to the web to cover upstate New York's transitioning economy
- Inside the Hall The go-to site for Hoosier basketball fanatics
- Inside Facebook Data-heavy news and analysis of the Internet's hottest property
- Intersections South Los Angeles USC students report on their neighboring communities
- InvestigateWest Investigative journalism for the Pacific Northwest
- Investigative Reporting Workshop Multimedia reporting in a university setting
- The Iowa Independent An early member of the American Independent News Network, all grown up
- The Iowa Republican Reporting-heavy partisan news
- Jersey City Independent Eye-opening alternative news for a bedroom community on the Hudson
- Journal Watchdog A print startup’s bold online muckracking operation
- The Lens Investigative reporting on The Big Easy
- Lexington Commons A voice for Lexington’s nonprofit organizations
- LiveScience Science news at light speed
- The Locust Fork News-Journal A one-man purveyor of mobile journalism performance art
- The Los Angeles Review of Books A book review section for a post-print age
- LymeLine Hyperlocal news for two small Connecticut towns
- Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Filling the reporting gap in Maine’s state capital
- Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting A one-man investigative unit in the heartland
- MinnPost The Twin Cities startup is seeking loyal readers for hard news
- NJ Spotlight Trenton’s statehouse startup
- NEast Philly Neighborhood news for working-class Philadelphia
- Nebraska Watchdog Think tank-funded investigations for the Cornhusker State
- Neon Tommy A student-run news site with a national reputation
- Nevada News Bureau Franklin Center-affiliated statehouse news for the Battle Born State
- New England Center for Investigative Reporting Hard-hitting investigations in and around the Boston area
- New Hampshire Watchdog Long-term investigations, libertarian style
- New Haven Independent Connecticut-based leader in nonprofit community news
- New West News, analysis, and culture reporting for the Rocky Mountain region
- The News Outlet College students report local news for northeastern Ohio
- NJ Spotlight Trenton’s statehouse startup
- Oakland Local Susan Mernit & co. cover their corner of the Bay
- Obit Magazine Making the most of the dead beat
- Oklahoma Watch An investigative nonprofit for the Sooner State
- OpenSecrets.org Exhaustive reporting on money in politics
- Ozarks Unbound One man (and three contributors) in the wide world of northwest Arkansas
- paidContent Covering the business of digital media since 2002
- PatersonPress.com Hard news meets hyperlocal in Paterson, N.J.
- Peach Pundit Conservative local political commentary from the founders of RedState
- Philadelphia Neighborhoods Award-winning student journalism from Temple University
- Pitchfork The prolific online music reviewer/kingmaker
- PlanPhilly Reporting on urban planning and Philadelphia’s changing neighborhoods
- Politico The site that defined the twenty-four-hour news cycle
- PopMatters Pop culture criticism with an academic bent
- Portland Afoot Portland-based transportation advocacy
- ThePortlander Portland-centric news with a casual flair
- The Post Social media gurus of South Dakota
- Prince of Petworth Purveyor of D.C. local news and oddities
- ProPublica The web’s best-known muckraker
- Publicola Extensive political coverage for Seattle and Washington state
- Quorum Report A pioneer in niche online coverage, reporting on Texas politics since 1998
- The Rapidian Grand Rapids-based citizen journalism
- Remapping Debate An NYC-based site that seeks to throw a wrench in conventional wisdom on public policy
- Rio Grande Guardian An online-only news source for South Texas
- Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network Investigative journalism with statewide import and local impact
- The Root A strong online presence for the African American press
- Rust Wire Reporting on urban and social issues in the Rust Belt
- RVANews Richmond’s online-only news source
- The St. Louis Beacon “News that matters” for St. Louis
- Salon The general interest online magazine has learned to get specific
- The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University The first university-based investigative nonprofit
- Seattle PostGlobe Seattle-centric reporting and aggregation, and a place for former Post-Intelligencer staffers to practice their craft
- Slant Omnivorous pop culture criticism
- Slate The Internet’s old guard general interest publication has never slowed down
- Small Wars Journal An information hub and blogging network for some of the biggest names in military thought
- Solutions Colorado’s source for health policy reporting and discussion
- Sports Gab Network A network of over seventy sports blogs with a special focus on the NFL
- Street Fight A news source for the burgeoning hyperlocal industry
- Streetsblog Public transportation reporters/advocates in NYC, DC, LA, and SF
- Summit County Citizens Voice Local news and environment coverage for Summit County, Colo.
- Talking Points Memo The pioneer of web-based political journalism
- TechCrunch The tech startup news news startup
- Technically Philly Detailed coverage of the Philadelphia tech scene
- The Texas Tribune Political reporting and investigations for the Lone Star State
- Theme Park Insider News and reviews for theme park enthusiasts
- This Land Press Place-based literary journalism in and about Oklahoma
- TucsonSentinel.com Continuing an underdog media legacy in Tucson
- Twin Cities Daily Planet Citizen-powered local news for Minneapolis and St. Paul
- Universal Hub A wicked smart Boston hyperlocal
- UtahPolicy.com Political news for Beehive State political insiders
- voiceofsandiego.org A nonprofit news innovator in Southern California
- VTDigger.org Deep coverage for the Green Mountain State
- The Watchdog Institute Investigative journalism for San Diego and beyond
- Watchdog New England A catalyst for investigative reporting in Boston and beyond
- Watershed Post News and environmental reporting for the Catskills
- West Virginia Watchdog Think tank-funded West Virginia political news and investigations
- Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Investigative reporting for the Badger State
- WyoFile Enterprise reporting for the Equality State
- Yale Environment 360 In-depth environmental news, commentary, and analysis