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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged This Land Press

1. September 6, 2012 11:00 AM

   CJR Audio: investing in local news startups

   Talking shop with investor/ publishers Alice Rogoff (Alaska Dispatch) and Vincent LoVoi (This Land Press)

   By Michael Meyer

   In most of the startup world, capital is everything. It costs money to build an institution and sustain its growth until the point that revenues can match (and then, hopefully, exceed) expenses. But there’s very little capital in the world of local journalism startups. National brands such as Patch or Journatic that seek to bring scale and efficiency to local...

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2. March 21, 2011 03:15 PM

   Narrative Found

   This Land Press closes investment deal; will become Oklahoma’s first (or at least strongest) new media company

   By Michael Meyer

   Earlier this month, This Land Press published the latest installment in its ongoing coverage of Bradley Manning, the army private accused of providing thousands of pages of classified documents to WikiLeaks. The story, by newly minted This Land staff reporter Denver Nicks, looks at a formative period of Manning’s life through the eyes of Jordan Davis, Manning’s best friend from...

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