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BxB publishers united in reporting FOR vs ABOUT their communities

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Sally Duros

The secret sauce for effective local indie online news easily boils down to choosing between two words: FOR  vs. ABOUT. “Reporters elsewhere write ABOUT our communities. We write FOR our communities,” said David Boraks, Publisher of DavidsonNews.net, at the close of … Continue reading →

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Patterson will sweeten LION dues for local independent online news publishers

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Sally Duros

  LIONPublishers, the new trade association for local independent online news publishers, will be getting a start-up sweetener from The Patterson Foundation. Patterson will offer a subsidy to encourage local indie publishers to join LION, the formation of which  was … Continue reading →

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Tucson Sentinel focuses on keeping the community talking

Posted on October 31, 2011 by MicheleMcLellan

By Kathleen Majorsky In 2009, Gannett shut down the Tucson Citizen, one of the city’s two newspapers, after 138 years. The city’s morning newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star, continued to provide news and information for the city. But a voice … Continue reading →

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Small, indep. news site in AZ could gain from corporate news layoffs

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Jessica Durkin

What is a loss for corporate legacy media in the Tucson, AZ, newspaper market could be a small gain for an independent news start-up. “Given that the amount of local content in the [Arizona Daily] Star is bound to be … Continue reading →

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