CJR's Guide to Online News Startups

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   Organizations filtered by Pennsylvania.

1. Dec 8, 2010 03:40 PM

   FactCheck.org

   A "consumer advocate" for voters

   By Justin Yang

   PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — In a world of 140-character tweets and political attack ads posted on YouTube, information has become easier to access and easier to release. It's also become more difficult to discern between what information is true and what is false. FactCheck.org rose to the challenge of making those calls in political discourse leading up to the 2004 election and has continued to...

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2. Oct 31, 2011 03:15 PM

   Issue Media Group

   A network of feel-good local business news sites

   By Erik Shilling

   DETROIT, MICHIGAN — It's been six years since Paul Schutt and Brian Boyle founded Detroit-based Model D, a business news website that orients itself toward the positive side of the job loss-plagued Motor City. The site was the first of what would turn into Issue Media Group, a network of nineteen city-based websites, from Tampa Bay to <a href=http://www.yongestreetmedia.com...

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3. Jul 5, 2011 02:37 PM

   NEast Philly

   Neighborhood news for working-class Philadelphia

   By Alex Fekula

   PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — While still an undergraduate journalism major at Temple University, Shannon McDonald launched the hyperlocal NEast Philly, an online only news source that provides daily coverage for the Northeast section of Philadelphia. In the site's own words, NEast Philly offers "daily news, analysis, multimedia, columns and commentary on everything that interests the proud, working-class neighborhoods of The NEast." <li...

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4. Feb 24, 2012 12:33 PM

   Patch (Pennsylvania)

   AOL's fast-growing hyperlocal network

   By Lauren Kirchner

   In 2010, Patch launched twelve community sites in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, a densely populated area on the eastern edge of the state formerly propped up by the steel and manufacturing industries, and now making the transition into the tech sector. Since then, the Patch network in Pennsylvania has grown extensively, to fifty-nine sites, and includes large clusters of sites in the suburbs of Philadelphia and...

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5. Mar 25, 2011 03:05 AM

   Philadelphia Neighborhoods

   Award-winning student journalism from Temple University

   By Daniel Denvir

   PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — Philadelphia Neighborhoods is a news website reporting on the city's poor and working class neighborhoods, produced by undergraduate journalism students at Temple University. The site is part of Temple journalism's Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab, which emphasizes two things deemed important for future journalists: hyper-local reporting and the ability to tell stories via text, photos, and video. <ul...

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6. Mar 25, 2011 03:02 AM

   PlanPhilly

   Reporting on urban planning and Philadelphia's changing neighborhoods

   By Daniel Denvir

   PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — PlanPhilly is a news website providing in-depth coverage of the city's built environment. The site was launched in 2006 to cover the planning process for the Delaware River waterfront. PennPraxis, a planning consultancy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, asked journalist Matt Golas, former metro editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, to come in and give them some advice. He...

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7. May 2, 2011 04:17 PM

   Technically Philly

   Detailed coverage of the Philadelphia tech scene

   By Daniel Denvir

   PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — Like so many young journalism school graduates, Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk, and Christopher Wink could not find jobs in 2008. Philadelphia's two dailies had shed hundreds of positions, and plenty of highly experienced older reporters were ready to apply for anything that opened up. The job market was, "in a word, awful," says Blanda. "The three of us felt like we...

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8. Mar 2, 2012 10:00 AM

   The Sanatoga Post

   A one-man news network in Pennsylvania

   By Erik Shilling

   SANATOGA, PENNSYLVANIA — When Joseph Zlomek decided to go back into the news business in August 2008 and launch The Sanatoga Post, he drew inspiration from nostalgia. Zlomek had fond, decades-old memories of the Eagle Bulletin, a small weekly based in Fayetteville, N.Y., a suburb of Syracuse, near where he was raised. The paper, Zlomek says, was regularly the hottest read among townsfolk....

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9. Mar 27, 2012 01:19 PM

   West Philly Local

   Hyperlocal news and events for 50,000 Philadelphians

   By Caitlin Kasunich

   PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — Just across the Schuylkill River from Center City Philadelphia, Western Philadelphia--or "West Philly," as the locals call it--is home to about 50,000 people, many of whom are students or professors at the University of Pennsylvania or Drexel University, both of which in the neighborhood. While Philadelphia media outlets run stories on West Philly as part of their broader coverage of the metro area,...

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