CJR's Guide to Online News Startups

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May 13, 2013 03:26 PM
ACEsConnection.com

A niche social network for professionals working in science, education, and policy related to childhood trauma
By Maura R. O'Connor
WINTERS, CA —ACEsConnection.com (ACEs stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences) is a niche social network primarily for professionals in education, criminal justice, public health, and government that work on ACEs related issues. As of May 2013, the network has over 950 members. It is run by journalist Jane Stevens, who founded the network alongside news site ACEsTooHigh.com. To read the Guide to Online News Startups profile...
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May 13, 2013 03:27 PM
ACEsTooHigh.com

Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
By Maura R. O'Connor
WINTERS, CA — In 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of one of the largest studies ever conducted to assess the relationship between childhood trauma and adult well-being. Over the course of two years, 17,000 individuals underwent physical examinations and answered a multitude of questions about their family history. Was a biological parent ever lost through divorce or abandonment? Did...
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Jul 18, 2011 04:18 PM
E&E Publishing

High-cost subscription coverage of environment and energy policy and markets
By Maura R. O'Connor
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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Mar 24, 2011 10:41 PM
ecoRI

Community engagement through environmental news (and composting)
By Daniel Denvir
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND — Frank Carini, a Boston native with an accent to match, has gone from sports writing to composting. He founded ecoRI.com in September 2009 after spending twenty years at newspapers on the North Shore in Massachusetts, Cincinnati, and in Newport, Rhode Island. "I was getting sick of the direction of where we were going," he says. "Too much covering press releases and...
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Feb 18, 2011 12:29 PM
Great Lakes Echo

Sharp science news with a sense of humor
By Justin Yang
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN — Residents of the Great Lakes region have one publication to thank for their understanding of the menace that is the zebra mussel, clogger of power plant intake pipes. That publication is the Great Lakes Echo. A project of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University, the Echo aims to build environmental awareness of...
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Jan 4, 2011 05:17 PM
Grist

Irreverent online environmental magazine offers in-depth reporting with "secret sauce"
By Brett Norman
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — Grist is an irreverent online environmental magazine that aggressively courts young readers, ad dollars, and philanthropic backers. Launched in 1999, the publication could be considered an octogenarian in web years, but maintains the tenor of a cheerful young rebel. To celebrate the nonprofit's tenth anniversary, Grist founder and CEO Chip Giller announced a "Screw Earth Day!" campaign, saying "too many people...
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Jul 15, 2011 11:39 AM
HealthNewsReview.org

A watchdog for health care journalism
By Maura R. O'Connor
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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Oct 24, 2011 07:04 PM
InsideClimate News

Environment news and investigations
By Alysia Santo
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — After experimenting with a variety of quick-hit approaches to environmental coverage, a four-year-old online news startup focused on climate change is moving in a slower, more involved reportorial direction. Originally launched in 2007 as SolveClimate News, the site announced on September 6, 2011 that it had hired an executive editor, Susan White, and changed its name to InsideClimate...
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Jan 5, 2011 07:50 PM
LiveScience

Science news at light speed
By Brett Norman
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — LiveScience cranks out a high-volume mix of newsy and fun science curios in its efforts to chase after the fickle attentions of Internet wayfarers. Readers are voting approval with their clicks--an impressive three million-plus uniques per month--and the site, with a full-time editorial staff of five, has the relatively rare distinction of being profitable. As part of a...
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May 17, 2011 11:51 AM
Summit County Citizens Voice

Local news and environment coverage for Summit County, Colo.
By Alex Fekula
FRISCO, COLORADO — The day Bob Berwyn of the Summit County Citizens Voice was scheduled to be interviewed by CJR, he had to beg off due to what is apparently a not uncommon event when reporting from Summit County, Colo., home of famed ski resorts like Vail and Breckenridge. "I just got called to a search and rescue," he wrote via e-mail. "Lost snowmobiler. Prob...
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Jan 19, 2011 04:42 PM
The Locust Fork News-Journal

A one-man purveyor of mobile journalism performance art
By Michael Meyer
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 case, a former newspaper reporter and self-proclaimed champion of the "independent watchdog Web press" named Glynn Wilson. Unlike most sites (including many owned by the "corporate media" Wilson rails against) the News-Journal is stable and profitable--a testament to what can...
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Jun 14, 2011 09:53 AM
Watershed Post

News and environmental reporting for the Catskills
By Brett Norman
DELHI, NEW YORK — The Watershed Post, an online news source for five counties in upstate New York, made a splash last fall with its real-time coverage of widespread flooding that swept one woman to her death in the Neversink River. Its editors call this back country in the Catskill Mountains a "news desert," mostly bereft of local media coverage,...
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Jan 4, 2011 03:45 PM
Yale Environment 360

In-depth environmental news, commentary, and analysis
By Brett Norman
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine that publishes long-form environmental journalism by prominent reporters, academics, and policymakers. A nonprofit backed primarily by two heavyweight philanthropic foundations, e360, as it's known, isn't subject to the market pressures squeezing many outlets. That leaves its full-time staff of three to focus on producing in-depth news, commentary, and analysis--and, more recently, extended video...
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