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1. The News Frontier

   Narrative Found

   March 21, 2011 03:15 PM

   Earlier this month, This Land Press published the latest installment in its ongoing coverage of Bradley Manning, the army private accused of providing thousands of pages of classified documents to WikiLeaks. The story, by newly minted... Continue reading

2. Guide to Online News Startups

   NMPolitics.net

   December 21, 2011 11:23 AM

   LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO — In the spring of 2006, Heath Haussamen was working for the Las Cruces Sun-News in southern New Mexico, an ambitious... Continue reading

3. Guide to Online News Startups

   Sites Included in the Guide to Online News Startups

   May 24, 2011 02:21 PM

   This is a complete, alphabetized list of all the sites currently listed in the CJR's Guide to Online News Startups, formerly known as the News Frontier Database. Although we have completed more than 250 entries, the Guide is still... Continue reading

4. Guide to Online News Startups

   Welcome (Back)!

   March 23, 2011 06:19 AM

   Editor's note: On March 1, 2012, the News Frontier Database was renamed "CJR's Guide to Online News Startups." We're pleased to announce the latest upgrade of the News Frontier Database--now with more local news. We launched in January with originally... Continue reading

5. Guide to Online News Startups

   This Land Press

   March 21, 2011 05:20 PM

   TULSA, OKLAHOMA — Earlier this month, This Land Press published the latest installment in its ongoing coverage of Bradley Manning, the army... Continue reading

6. Guide to Online News Startups

   Guide to Online News Startups FAQ

   March 20, 2011 03:34 PM

   What is the Guide to Online News Startups? The Guide to Online News Startups, formerly known as the News Frontier Database, is a searchable, living, and ongoing documentation of digital news outlets across the country. Featuring originally reported profiles and... Continue reading

7. Guide to Online News Startups

   The Locust Fork News-Journal

   January 19, 2011 04:42 PM

   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... Continue reading

8. Guide to Online News Startups

   The Daily Caller

   January 17, 2011 11:46 AM

   WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — "My politics are relatively well known," conservative media personality Tucker Carlson told CJR in February of 2010, not long... Continue reading

9. Guide to Online News Startups

   DoD Buzz

   January 5, 2011 08:47 PM

   WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — Structurally speaking, DoD Buzz is little more than a personal blog dressed up as a full-on news publication. The... Continue reading

10. Guide to Online News Startups

    The Huffington Post

    January 5, 2011 08:23 PM

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK — As of the writing of this profile, the "BIG NEWS" header at the top of The Huffington Post's homepage... Continue reading

11. Guide to Online News Startups

    Small Wars Journal

    December 31, 2010 12:51 AM

    WASHINGTON, DISTRICT of COLUMBIA — Although it's right to call Small Wars Journal a niche publication, doing so misrepresents the site's true influence. "Small... Continue reading

12. Guide to Online News Startups

    Alaska Dispatch

    December 29, 2010 12:02 AM

    ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Alaska Dispatch is a regional reporting powerhouse. A for-profit that fights aggressively for online ad dollars, the Dispatch still manages to... Continue reading

13. Feature

    Surface Routines

    November 28, 2008 12:12 PM

    Overload—the amount people feel compelled to know combined with the volume of information they have to sift through in order to know it—is perhaps the largest factor in the increasingly distinct difference between how people read printed material and how... Continue reading

14. Behind the News

    Newspapers’ Sad Sisters

    April 17, 2008 12:22 PM

    NEXPO, still the largest newspaper equipment trade show of the year, kicked off Saturday at D.C.’s massive Washington Convention Center. In years past, it had been a place where companies would spend upwards of a half million dollars to cart... Continue reading

15. Q and A

    Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib

    March 5, 2008 02:40 PM

    Errol Morris is widely considered to be one of the best American filmmakers, a reputation that is especially impressive considering that he works in the ghettoized genre of the documentary. The Fog of War (2003) won him an Oscar, and... Continue reading

16. Video

    Recovering Reality: Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib

    March 5, 2008 02:40 PM

    Errol Morris is widely considered to be one of the best American filmmakers, a reputation that is especially impressive considering that he works in the ghettoized genre of the documentary. Michael Meyer sat down with Morris in his Cambridge, Massachusetts,... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Hillary Clinton is not the underdog…

    January 8, 2008 04:03 PM

    WaPo, Newsweek’s Stumper blog, Politico, and several others use headlines today rechristening former favorite Hillary Clinton as the new “underdog” of the race. Allow us to offer a clarification of terms. The underdog is the individual... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Mitt Romney, Mormon

    December 6, 2007 06:37 PM

    Earlier this week, Marc Ambinder predicted in the Atlantic that one of the “cons” of Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech (delivered this morning and erroneously hyped by many outlets as an address of voter concerns with Romney’s religion)... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    To Bomb or Not to Bomb?

    November 7, 2007 01:22 PM

    A recent Zogby poll has lit up the blogosphere for several days now with its claim that a majority of Americans are on board for U.S. military action against Iran. Both sides of the aisle are lamenting or <a... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Hamas’s Musical Weapon

    November 1, 2007 12:26 PM

    Journalists take note: sometimes it takes a sense of humor as dark as only the British can muster to break a story. The Telegraph proved this yesterday with the headline, “Hamas Boy Band to Bring Harmony to Gaza.” You heard... Continue reading

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