Afternoon digest: Dec. 2, 2011
Some light reading for your Friday afternoon: Oakland's Tribune Tower bought by call center company…
December 2, 2011
Independent news sites
If you’re running a journalism startup, you need to live in the present
CJR The key differentiator when looking at journalism startups, Michael Meyer writes, is whether the operation…
November 21, 2011
Afternoon digest: Nov. 16, 2011
A few stories to read on the train or at traffic lights: The Minnesota Independent…
November 16, 2011
3 out of 10 journalism startups don’t have a business plan
Renaissance Journalism Center A survey of people leading journalism startups finds that "the typical management…
November 16, 2011
People like James O’Keefe ‘think they are acting like journalists’
DNAInfo.com "They think having a camera makes them a journalist. Instead, this is a cheap…
November 15, 2011
U.K.’s Daily Mail pays The Batavian for unauthorized use of photos
HowardOwens.com Twice this summer, the Daily Mail pulled photos from The Batavian and republished them…
November 7, 2011
NYT partnership ‘sort of a halo & a cloud’ for independent news sites
NetNewsCheck Michael Depp examines the close, complicated relationship between The New York Times and three…
November 1, 2011
Google News won’t index solo journalists
SplatF | GigaOM Dan Frommer, who helped to launch Business Insider and now is covering…
October 20, 2011
New trade group for hyperlocal news sites won’t include Patch
Street Fight | Vouchification A group of 20-some hyperlocal news publishers around the country decided…
October 3, 2011
McLellan describes ‘newspaper replacement syndrome’ and other challenges facing independent publishers
Reynolds Journalism Institute Michele McLellan describes the challenges journalists face as they build independent news…
September 30, 2011
Hyperlocal site RiverheadLocal looks for lessons in sustainability at Block by Block summit
The theme for the homecoming parade was board games, and Denise Civiletti, the publisher of…
September 30, 2011
Memo to Patch editors: If you’re going to work that hard, why not start your own hyperlocal site?
Howard Owens Howard Owens writes that the duties described by a Patch editor, while vast, are…
September 26, 2011
New wave of ‘Indielectual’ websites fight the quick-turn content culture
New York Observer Kat Stoeffel describes how The Awl has spawned a new generation of…
September 21, 2011
Seattle video store says print coupons offer best return on ad dollars
Street Fight The marketing coordinator for an independent video store in Seattle tells Stephanie Miles…
September 20, 2011
YouTube discussing collaboration with Center for Investigative Reporting
Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube is interested in "launching a service dedicated to investigative journalism in response…
September 9, 2011
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