CJR's Guide to Online News Startups

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   Organizations filtered by Vermont.

1. Mar 24, 2011 04:00 PM

   Front Porch Forum

   Social networking and citizen journalism in northern Vermont

   By Armin Rosen

   BURLINGTON, VERMONT — Vermont-based social networking site Front Porch Forum has earned an intense regional following, partly thanks to its success as a venue for hyperlocal citizen journalism. FPF users within 120 small, geographically specific networks write daily and weekly newsletters covering the most quotidian neighborhood news, from church talent shows to snow removal reports. (Since FPF newsletters aren't archived online, we can't provide...

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2. Mar 25, 2011 03:09 AM

   VTDigger.org

   Deep coverage for the Green Mountain State

   By Daniel Luzer

   MONTPELIER, VERMONT — As the name suggests, VTDigger (pronounced "V.T. Digger," not "Vermont Digger") aims to provide deep coverage of local issues in the Green Mountain State. "I wanted to follow stories in-depth," explains Anne Galloway, the publication's editor-in-chief. "Not all of our stories are investigative; but we want them all to go deep." While it's not all hard-hitting political stories--the day after Christmas, Digger...

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3. Jul 11, 2011 01:18 PM

   Watchdog New England

   A catalyst for investigative reporting in Boston and beyond

   By Isaac Olson

   BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — Watchdog New England, the website of the nonprofit Initiative for Investigative Reporting at Northeastern University, aims to revive and strengthen investigative reporting throughout New England's six states--not as a news outlet in its own right, but as an ally to the region's more than eighty daily newspapers and countless weeklies. For now, the site primarily exists as a compendium of links to...

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