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Plunderbund
Ohio state politics from a progressive point of view
By Alysia Santo Oct 31, 2011 at 11:46 AM
HAMILTON, OHIO — Like many political news sites, Plunderbund was born out of frustration. Ohio-based writer Eric Vessels had been... More
InsideClimate News
Environment news and investigations
By Alysia Santo Oct 24, 2011 at 07:04 PM
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — After experimenting with a variety of quick-hit approaches to environmental coverage, a four-year-old online news startup... More
Cell coverage
How a convicted murderer found his true calling as a jailhouse reporter and prisoners’ rights crusader
By Alysia Santo Aug 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Paul Wright began his journalism career behind bars. When he was 21, Wright killed a man in Federal Way,... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Recycling old interviews, questioning the American dream, and Catholic parents head to Burning Man
By Alysia Santo Jun 22, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
Reporting from the battlefield, uninsured
Freelancers on the frontlines operate with little to no institutional support
By Alysia Santo Jun 21, 2012 at 01:40 PM
While covering the uprising against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, photojournalist Anton Hammerl was shot and killed in an... More
Domain suffixes are the latest Web real estate
What will this mean for the media industry?
By Alysia Santo Jun 15, 2012 at 02:50 PM
What do the words mail, love, cloud, and news have in common? They each have seven different entities proposing their... More
Learning from others’ Kickstarter mistakes
Infographic compares successful projects with those that failed
By Alysia Santo Jun 12, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Journalism professionals, professors, and students are taking their reporting proposals to Kickstarter, and for the past few months I’ve rounded... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Education in America, My Little Pony’s bronies, and paranormal investigations
By Alysia Santo Jun 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
GOOD Mag to be ‘a Reddit for social good’ (updated)
Ex-staffers at work on a new publication
By Alysia Santo Jun 5, 2012 at 03:50 PM
GOOD magazine fired six of its nine-person editorial staff on Friday—and two others accepted buyouts—as part of a move from... More
Turning users into supporters
Online startups need better ways to measure engagement efforts
By Alysia Santo May 30, 2012 at 05:30 PM
Building an actively involved audience ranks high on the priority list for news organizations, but as outlets around the country... More
The Kickstarter Chronicles
Community radio, burning-man culture, and a crowd-funded movie about crowdfunding
By Alysia Santo May 25, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another... More
Chicago police respect public’s right to record
Despite Illinois’s draconian wiretapping law
By Alysia Santo May 24, 2012 at 03:00 PM
When it comes to preventing citizens from recording police, Illinois has the most severe restrictions in the US. State law... More
You have a right to remain recording
Carlos Miller’s crusade for freedom of photography
By Alysia Santo May 18, 2012 at 04:10 PM
On January 31, officers from the Miami-Dade and City of Miami Police Departments donned riot gear and headed to Government... More
Seattle news site PubliCola is out of business
But its writers are moving to another Seattle site: Crosscut.com
By Alysia Santo May 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Seattle-based political news site PubliCola is closing, despite strong readership. As founder Josh Feit describes in a post, the... More
OffTheBus takes a ‘breather’
New technologies and partnerships in the works
By Alysia Santo May 9, 2012 at 03:10 PM
OffTheBus, The Huffington Post’s citizen journalism program for campaign coverage, hasn’t posted new content in almost a month. But the... More
Staying Safe
CPJ’s “Journalist Security Guide” is a must-read
By Alysia Santo May 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Committee to Protect Journalists just released its “Journalist Security Guide,” a 68-page manual for reporters that has tips on... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
