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Mar 23, 2011 06:19 AM
Welcome (Back)!

to the News Frontier Database, now weighing in at over 100 entries, with a lot more local news
By Michael Meyer
Editor's note: On March 1, 2012, the News Frontier Database was renamed "CJR's Guide to Online News Startups." We're pleased to announce the latest upgrade of the News Frontier Database--now with more local news. We launched in January with originally reported profiles of (and extensive data sets on) fifty prominent news startups across the country--many of them national sites, but a number of local operations as well. Fifty sites was a humble start for what we intend to build into...
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Jan 4, 2010 04:58 PM
Welcome!

to the News Frontier Database
By Admin Person
Editor's note: On March 1, 2012, the News Frontier Database was renamed "CJR's Guide to Online News Startups." The News Frontier Database is a searchable, living, and ongoing documentation of digital news outlets across the country. Featuring originally reported profiles and extensive data sets on each outlet, the NFDB is a tool for those who study or pursue online journalism, a window into that world for the uninitiated, and, like any journalistic product, a means by which to shed light...
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Feb 22, 2012 01:38 PM
Welles Park Bulldog

News and sports for Chicago's North Side
By Ian Fullerton
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Welles Park Bulldog takes its name from a picturesque public park in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood, and delivers insight and opinion on politics, culture, and sports for a dense stretch of residential and mixed-use boroughs on Chicago's North Side. The site's founder and publisher, Patrick Boylan, first had the idea that would eventually become the Bulldog in 2009. "I had...
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Oct 31, 2011 10:00 AM
West Orlando News Online

Left-of-center community news for Orlando, Fla.
By Paige Rentz
ORLANDO, FLORIDA — For Keith Longmore, it's a point of pride that the Tea Party has targeted West Orlando News Online, the left-of-center local news site he publishes in Orange County, Florida, for a service it provides to locals hit hard by the foreclosure crisis. According to Longmore, posting information and links to help readers apply for government assistance programs is all in...
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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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Sep 29, 2011 11:02 AM
West Seattle Blog

Defining hyperlocal in both news and business
By Erik Shilling
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — In a city that is known for its steady rain, it's not surprising that it was the weather that put West Seattle Blog on the map as well. The blog, which now averages more than 80,000 visitors per month according to Quantcast and is routinely cited in breaking news stories by the Seattle Times, started in 2005 merely as a...
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Mar 24, 2011 03:27 PM
West Virginia Watchdog

Think tank-funded West Virginia political news and investigations
By Brendan Buhler
CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA — West Virginia Watchdog is a one-man shop focusing on investigative and statehouse news in the Mountain State. The site is part of a network of sites around the country that share the Watchdog name. The Watchdog's sole editorial employee is Steven Allen Adams, who is also a stringer for Reuters and contributes to a Charleston, W.V. entertainment news website called Kanawha...
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Jan 4, 2011 03:26 PM
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

Investigative reporting for the Badger State
By Colin Fleming
MADISON, WISCONSIN — In just under two years, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has broken over twenty-five major stories, ranging from the increased dependence on immigrant labor in the dairy industry to the stories behind the alarmingly high Native American suicide rates. The two-person team, led by executive director Andy Hall out of an office at the University of...
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Apr 17, 2012 12:47 PM
Worthit2u.net

Bringing online news to rural Georgia
By Tyler Jones
SYLVESTER, GEORGIA — Matt Medders was too young to be the chairman of the Worth County Commissioners, and Sherry Walls knew it. Although beating the incumbent by 208 votes, Medders was a few months short of meeting the legal requirement that the commissioner for the rural county in southwest Georgia be at least 27 years old. Before she could break the story for the weekly Sylvester Local...
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Jan 5, 2011 07:19 PM
WyoFile

Enterprise reporting for the Equality State
By Alex Fekula
CASPER, WY — [UPDATE: On September 5, 2012, the Knight Foundation announced that WyoFile was yet again a recipient of its Community Information Challenge Grant. The site received $62,000 from Knight and an equal amount from the Wyoming Community Foundation. It will hire one full-time reporter dedicated to the Wyoming Legislature and one part-time minority reporter, who will cover the Wind River Indian Reservation.]...
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Oct 31, 2011 01:45 PM
Y’all Politics

Extensive aggregation and commentary on Mississippi politics
By Alex Fekula
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi-based businessman Alan Lange loves politics--so much so that he launched a website in his spare time to cover the 2004 mayoral election in his hometown of Jackson, Miss. His reasoning was simple: "I wanted to cover [the race] in a way that hadn't been done before." His method was to create a centralized place for information about the race, consisting of...
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Nov 21, 2011 11:38 AM
Yadkin Valley Sports

High school sports news for eighteen schools in central North Carolina
By Erik Shilling
ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA — After earning his undergraduate journalism degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1993, Eric Lusk spent more than a decade patrolling small town sports beats at a number of newspapers across the state. In 2006, he got a job at the Elkin Tribune, which has a circulation of around 4,000. But just a year later the privately-owned paper was...
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Jan 4, 2011 03:45 PM
Yale Environment 360

In-depth environmental news, commentary, and analysis
By Brett Norman
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine that publishes long-form environmental journalism by prominent reporters, academics, and policymakers. A nonprofit backed primarily by two heavyweight philanthropic foundations, e360, as it's known, isn't subject to the market pressures squeezing many outlets. That leaves its full-time staff of three to focus on producing in-depth news, commentary, and analysis--and, more recently, extended video...
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Oct 31, 2011 02:26 PM
YubaNet

Online news stretching the Sierras
By Tyler Jones
NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA — "The legacy media don't see this area as a market," says Pascale Fusshoeller, editor and co-founder of YubaNet in Nevada City, California. When looking at a map of the Sierra Nevada, one can understand why. The Range of Light, as John Muir described it, stretches 400 sparsely populated miles along California's Central Valley, containing the...
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