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1. Guide to Online News Startups

   Missouri Journal

   April 2, 2012 03:42 PM

   ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI — Corporations are people? Maybe, but Brian R. Hook is both. As owner and sole staff member of the online-only <a href=http://www.missourijournal.com/... Continue reading

2. Guide to Online News Startups

   Borderzine.com

   March 20, 2012 01:30 PM

   EL PASO, TEXAS — Borderzine.com director Zita Arocha founded the site at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) with two... Continue reading

3. Guide to Online News Startups

   The Brooklyn Ink

   March 15, 2012 11:41 AM

   NEW YORK, NEW YORK — At about 1:30am on Nov. 15, 2011, student reporters at The Brooklyn Ink received a tip that police... Continue reading

4. Guide to Online News Startups

   The New York World

   March 12, 2012 01:58 PM

   NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Last October 18, the day The New York World went live with a mission to expand journalism education... Continue reading

5. Guide to Online News Startups

   Cronkite News

   February 20, 2012 01:54 PM

   PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Student journalists now learning their trade by filing stories for Cronkite News were born long after Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) signed... Continue reading

6. Guide to Online News Startups

   TownSquareBuzz.com

   February 8, 2012 07:43 PM

   McKINNEY, TEXAS — TownSquareBuzz.com, an online-only news site in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of McKinney, Texas, owes its existence to president and founder... Continue reading

7. Guide to Online News Startups

   InMaricopa

   February 3, 2012 04:54 PM

   MARICOPA, ARIZONA — When the InMaricopa website launched in 2004, the once-small town of Maricopa, Ariz. was in the midst of a massive... Continue reading

8. Guide to Online News Startups

   The Arizona Guardian

   January 30, 2012 03:07 PM

   PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Arizona exports political news like other states produce oranges or cheese. When Democratic media consultant Bob Grossfeld and a handful of veteran... Continue reading

9. Bio

   Tom Marcinko

   Tom Marcinko is a writer in Phoenix.