CJR's Guide to Online News Startups

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Mar 20, 2012 01:30 PM
Borderzine.com

Bilingual reporting by Latino college journalists
By Tom Marcinko
EL PASO, TEXAS — Borderzine.com director Zita Arocha founded the site at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) with two goals. "One is to tell the unreported stories of the [U.S.-Mexico] border region, which mainstream media doesn't do very well," says Arocha, a senior lecturer in journalism at UTEP. The second is to create "a pipeline" into the journalism profession...
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Oct 25, 2011 11:54 AM
Burnt Orange Report

A political news blog's move from undergraduate pursuit to progressive stalwart
By Tyler Jones
AUSTIN, TEXAS — In 2002, Republicans gained control of the Texas state legislature for the first time in over a century, allowing then-congressman Tom DeLay a chance to push for an unprecedented voter redistricting that would give Texas Republicans a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. With few progressive watchdogs online in the Lone Star State, undergraduate students at the University of Texas stepped...
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Sep 27, 2011 04:52 PM
Dallas South News

Making the move from blog to nonprofit news site
By Timothy Bella
DALLAS, TEXAS — Shawn Williams was in pharmaceutical sales for nine years before starting his personal blog in 2006. The blog was about South Dallas, an area of more than 500,000 people. He says he first started the blog to try to combat negative images of the African American community that he saw in the mainstream media. When he was let go from his job...
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Feb 16, 2012 01:09 PM
Grand Prairie Reporter

News by a former USPS employee turned reporter in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
By David Riedel
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — "I'm a reporter. I am not a journalist," says Grand Prairie Reporter founder Bob Fitch. "I don't want to degrade the craft of journalism. I can't write and paint a picture with words." Fitch's writing style is utilitarian and not nearly as bad as he claims, but he does try to keep stories on the Reporter at 250 words...
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Jan 27, 2012 11:55 AM
NOWCastSA

Multimedia community news for San Antonio, Texas
By Maura R. O'Connor
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — This spring, San Antonio residents will vote on a five-year, $596 million bond package intended to upgrade the city's infrastructure. The package includes 140 projects across the city, such as improvements to parks, sidewalks, and drainage facilities. Until they go to the polls on May 12, citizens who want to learn details about these projects can visit NOWCastSA.com, an...
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Oct 31, 2011 01:49 PM
Pegasus News

News, entertainment, and local information for the Dallas-Fort Worth area
By Tyler Jones
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Pegasus News was made to cover an event like the state fair of Texas. Both are large-scale, interactive, and can fry something up for everyone. Over 2.5 million people attend the fair each year, the largest in the country, and from the end of September to the event's conclusion three weeks later, Pegasus News adds a special homepage tab directing...
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May 23, 2011 11:12 AM
Quorum Report

A pioneer in niche online coverage, reporting on Texas politics since 1998
By Connor Boals
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Harvey Kronberg and his team at the Quorum Report are true Internet news frontiersmen. Kronberg, who has been covering Texas politics since 1989, purchased The Quorum Report, then a print-only political newsletter, in 1998, and within a year had turned the Report into an all-web news operation. Although he admits that he had to be convinced to go to the web...
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Mar 25, 2011 02:41 PM
Rio Grande Guardian

An online-only news source for South Texas
By Justin Yang
MCALLEN, TEXAS — In July of 2005, Steve Taylor and his partner Melinda Barerra sold their Isuzu Rodeo for seed money and launched the first online-only news site in the Texas border region. The site, called the Rio Grande Guardian, bills itself as "the internet newspaper of south Texas," and covers the Rio Grande Valley, which consists of the four counties that make up...
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Oct 25, 2011 11:47 AM
Texas Watchdog

A government watchdog for the Lone Star State
By Timothy Bella
HOUSTON, TEXAS — The audience that reads Texas Watchdog's reporting may not be familiar with the news site or the organization behind it, but that's okay by TW. "Being online, half our visitors, quite frankly, don't know who Texas Watchdog is, and they don't care who Texas Watchdog is," says Trent Seibert, the site's founder and editor-in-chief. All that matters is the quality...
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Dec 12, 2011 11:24 AM
The Austin Bulldog

An investigative reporter in the Texas capital
By Caitlin Kasunich
AUSTIN, TEXAS — In January of 2011, Ken Martin, the founder, editor, and publisher of The Austin Bulldog, an independent nonprofit investigative news website, got a tip from a prospective Austin city council candidate that council members were holding private meetings. The Texas Open Meetings Act prohibits private meetings for the purpose of deliberating on public business. And yet, on four...
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Jan 4, 2011 05:48 PM
The Texas Tribune

Political reporting and investigations for the Lone Star State
By Justin Yang
AUSTIN, TEXAS — The Texas Tribune, which writer Jake Batsell profiled for CJR in July 2010, focuses on state politics, government, and investigative reporting, and prides itself on finding innovative ways of presenting the news to an increasingly expanding audience. The nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization has helped redefine online journalism and extended its goals of civic engagement far beyond the Internet. ...
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Feb 8, 2012 07:43 PM
TownSquareBuzz.com

Community and sports news for a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb
By Tom Marcinko
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 Angie Bado's passion for local sports. In 2005, she brainstormed with local sports writers about ways to fill the gaps in area papers' declining sports coverage, and launched McKinneyNews.net, a site dedicated to the mission, that same year. <!-- OPEN...
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