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A River Runs Through It

Defining news communities through the water they share

By Alysia Santo Jul 27, 2011 at 05:15 PM

While students at Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Andrew McGlashen and Jeff Gillies started thinking, like so... More

Lessons from the Seattle PostGlobe

For start-ups, a love of journalism is not enough

By Alysia Santo Aug 12, 2011 at 04:21 PM

When, in 2009, Hearst announced that it had decided to close the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the newspaper’s staffers were beset... More

New Media Goes Door to Door in the Deep South

After a year and a half, Birmingham news site Weld is cleared for launch

By Michael Meyer May 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM

I first encountered Weld in September 2010, and it remains the only site I’m aware of that was given an... More

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