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Gotham Gazette
Detailed reporting on New York City governance
By Connor Boals Jul 27, 2011 at 02:48 PM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — It's no secret that many Americans are shamefully uninformed about their elected representatives, particularly at... More
Universal Hub
A wicked smart Boston hyperlocal
By Connor Boals Jul 25, 2011 at 04:00 PM
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — What started as a simple online directory of businesses, restaurants, and other establishments serving Boston has grown... More
Common Language Project
In-depth human rights reporting and multimedia storytelling
By Connor Boals Jul 21, 2011 at 05:46 PM
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON —In 2005, three friends on their way to becoming freshly anointed college grads had an idea. They were... More
Quorum Report
A pioneer in niche online coverage, reporting on Texas politics since 1998
By Connor Boals May 23, 2011 at 11:12 AM
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Harvey Kronberg and his team at the Quorum Report are true Internet news frontiersmen. Kronberg, who has... More
The News Outlet
College students report local news for northeastern Ohio
By Connor Boals May 19, 2011 at 04:01 PM
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO — Faced with an increase in journalism majors and the general decay of legacy media coverage in the... More
Inside the Hall
The go-to site for Hoosier basketball fanatics
By Connor Boals Mar 24, 2011 at 03:48 PM
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA — What began as a couple buddies blogging about their passion for their alma mater has grown into... More
Columbus Underground
Entertainment and events coverage with a civic bent
By Connor Boals Mar 24, 2011 at 03:31 PM
COLUMBUS, OHIO — Launched in 2001, Columbus Underground was founding editor Walker Evans's answer to a lack of online resources... More
Pirate Radio, Mayan Style
Indigenous stations want to come in from the cold
By Connor Boals Aug 24, 2011 at 01:48 PM
When you get to Sumpango, in the central highlands of Guatemala, you won’t be able to find Radio Ixchel... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
