CJR's Guide to Online News Startups

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   Organizations filtered by Arizona.

1. Feb 20, 2012 01:54 PM

   Cronkite News

   Arizona State University's student-reported website and news wire

   By Tom Marcinko

   PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Student journalists now learning their trade by filing stories for Cronkite News were born long after Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) signed off the CBS Evening News in 1981. A part of Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Cronkite News publishes news by student journalists on its own website, and produces stories for the Associated Press, McClatchy-Tribune...

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2. Feb 3, 2012 04:54 PM

   InMaricopa

   Online community news for an Arizona town damaged by the housing crisis

   By Tom Marcinko

   MARICOPA, ARIZONA — When the InMaricopa website launched in 2004, the once-small town of Maricopa, Ariz. was in the midst of a massive population boom. With families seeking cheaper housing outside of Phoenix, the former nineteenth-century mail stop on the Gila River went from 1,000 residents in 2000 to 40,000 in 2010. In 2006, housing prices began to level off, two years...

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3. Jan 30, 2012 03:07 PM

   The Arizona Guardian

   Niche political news for a state everyone's watching

   By Tom Marcinko

   PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Arizona exports political news like other states produce oranges or cheese. When Democratic media consultant Bob Grossfeld and a handful of veteran journalists launched the Arizona Guardian web-based news service in January 2009, they were well aware they were setting up shop in a state with a lively political scene. And that was before Arizona's headline-making "show-me-your-papers" immigration bill, the...

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4. Mar 24, 2011 11:50 AM

   TucsonSentinel.com

   Continuing an underdog media legacy in Tucson

   By Alex Fekula

   TUCSON, ARIZONA — After a 138-year run, the Tucson Citizen, a daily that reported on such historic events as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, closed its doors in May of 2009. Dylan Smith, the Citizen's online editor, was among the many journalists displaced by the paper's disbanding. Not content to let the Arizona Daily Star claim victory in Tucson's newspaper war, Smith undertook what...

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