CJR's Guide to Online News Startups

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1. Feb 3, 2011 05:14 PM

   Florida Center for Investigative Reporting

   A pioneer bilingual investigative nonprofit

   By Justin Yang

   MIAMI, FLORIDA — When the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR) received a $100,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation in September of 2010, it marked the launch of Florida's first nonprofit bilingual online investigative reporting organization. Located at the International Media Center at Florida International University, FCIR is emerging as a leader in investigative news and an innovator...

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2. Sep 26, 2011 11:27 AM

   New America Media

   A news wire (and much more) for America's ethnic press

   By Lauren Kirchner

   SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — In 1969, historian Franz Schurmann and journalist Orville Schell founded Pacific News Service to provide an alternative news source about U.S. military actions abroad. Four decades later, a descendant of that project continues the mission of supplementing the American mainstream press with news it wouldn't get otherwise--but this initiative seeks to inform by crossing linguistic, rather than geographic, borders. <!-- OPEN...

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3. Mar 24, 2011 12:04 PM

   The Iowa Independent (Defunct)

   An early member of the American Independent News Network, all grown up

   By Joel Meares

   DES MOINES, IOWA — [UPDATE:The Iowa Independent was closed by its parent, the American Independent News Network, in November 2011. Lynda Waddington, the site's last employee, wrote a moving note to readers about the closure, which can be found here. CJR's detailed profile of AINN's refocusing on a national audience after shutting down all but one of its state sites can be found <a...

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