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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. September 26, 2012 06:50 AM

   First impressions of Quartz

   Atlantic Media’s mobile-first business site looks great, acts “janky”

   By Hazel Sheffield

   Quartz, Atlantic Media’s mobile-first business site, launched on Monday afternoon following much fanfare this summer. Straight off, users responded to its decision to organize content by flexible “obsessions” rather than beats, its mobile-first design, and several first-day glitches (possibly related to its heavy reliance on Javascript, which takes a long time to load) that Nieman Lab described as “janky.” Back...

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3. September 19, 2012 04:35 PM

   New platform to connect journalists and publishers launches

   Contently aggregates work across media outlets

   By Hazel Sheffield

   A new platform to help freelance journalists aggregate their work will be launched on Thursday. Contently aims to help journalists to build their personal brand online and connect them with publishers looking for writers. The site was conceived by Shane Snow, a 2010 graduate of Columbia Journalism School and writer for Wired. He told CJR that Contently is modelled on...

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4. April 19, 2012 07:04 PM

   Online News Startups Struggle to Break Even in Western Europe

   A viable business model remains as elusive overseas as it is in the U.S.

   By Lauren Kirchner

   Last year, in a research project titled “The Business of Digital Journalism,” the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism set out to find digital news outlets that were successfully making money on their own: without being bankrolled by institutional grants or other investors, and without being propped up by profits from a legacy, print-based counterpart. With the exception of big-name...

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