CJR's Guide to Online News Startups

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Organizations filtered by 2003.

Sep 13, 2011 11:23 AM
Buffalo Rising

A grassroots print startup hits its stride online
By Paige Rentz
BUFFALO, NEW YORK — The mission of Buffalo Rising is embedded in its very name. A decade ago, as Elmwood Avenue shop owner Newell Nussbaumer began to witness a resurgence in his native city, he saw grassroots movements growing and activists who needed a voice. He sought to provide that with Buffalo Rising, first a tri-annual and later a monthly print product, and...
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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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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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Mar 24, 2011 03:38 PM
Gapers Block

Chicago's first city-wide news and culture blog
By Armin Rosen
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Today, Gapers Block is a smartly designed Chicago blog with everything you'd expect to see on a web-specific and geographically focused publication: there's an events calendar, as well as tabs for food, arts, music, and politics. But if Gapers Block looks typical, that's only because of its own influence on the "city blog" genre. When it launched in 2003, Gapers Block...
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Jan 3, 2011 01:35 PM
Gawker

Pioneers of Internet snark branch out toward general interest news
By Sean Gandert
NEW YORK, NEW YORK— The rise of Gawker has been well-documented. Founded by Nick Denton in 2003 as "the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip," the site's urbane tone of bemusement in line with the old Spy, coupled with the Internet's ability to feature near-instant commentary on events, turned the site into a quick, widely imitated success. But the current version of...
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Mar 24, 2011 10:50 PM
Hispanic Nashville

News for a community within a community
By Dylan DePice
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — The rise of the Internet, along with some significant (and not coincidental) old-media belt-tightening, has inspired many a traditional journalist to look for work on the web. But that's not the story of Hispanic Nashville. John Lamb created the blog in 2003 as a means of highlighting local media coverage of Nashville's Hispanic community, and has developed the site into...
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Jul 13, 2011 12:54 PM
LymeLine

Hyperlocal news for two small Connecticut towns
By Mike Madden
OLD LYME, CONNECTICUT — Founded in 2003 by veteran publisher Jack Turner and now headed by news editor Olwen Logan, LymeLine had the humble beginnings one might expect for a site that covers two towns (Lyme and Old Lyme) with a combined population of fewer than 10,000. When Turner first decided to venture into the world of online journalism, paperless news had yet to...
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