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DeSmogBlog


Site Url: http://www.desmogblog.com/

Feed Url:

Target community: Worldwide, mainly North America

Is the site active? --

Professional journalists? --

Paid staff? --

Is the site part of a network? --

Is the site a media affiliate? --

Content created by:

Who contributes to your content?

  • Professional journalists: %
  • Community members: 40%
  • Students: 20%
  • Aggregate content of others:
  • Others:

Site's focus: International climate change news site

Target audience size: 50,000 to 100,000

Year founded: 2005

Who or what started your project?

  • a professional journalist(s)
  • another source

Update frequency: multiple times a day

Which online networks do you use?

  • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeSmogBlog
  • Twitter: DeSmogBlog

Does your site aggregate content from other online sites? No

Does your site provide training? No

Business model: Nonprofit

What are your sources of revenue?

  • grants
  • donors

How are you staffed?

  • How many full time staffers: 1
  • How many part-time staffers: 2
  • How many volunteers:
  • How many students:

Annual operating budget: between $100,000 and $300,00 per year

Contact Information

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Contact URL: editor@desmogblog.com

How important is each of the following goals to your project?

1 means "not very important" and 6 means "very important"

  • Covering news not covered: 2
  • Watchdogging local government and public officials: 4
  • Investigating issues or wrongdoings: 1
  • Helping your community solve problems: 5
  • Empowering community members: 6
  • Developing opportunities for community dialogue:
  • Collaborating with local partners:
  • Involving community to shape local content:
  • Making a profit:
  • Being a sustainable operation:

What else should people know about your site?
DeSmogBlog exists to clear the pollution around climate change science. The DeSmogBlog Project has quickly become the world's number one source for accurate, fact based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns. Our articles and stories are routinely highlighted in the world's most popular news blogs: New York Times DotEarth, Huffington Post, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, and Treehugger, to name a few. DeSmogBlog has won the Canadian Public Relation Society's Leadership in Communcation award, and was voted Canada's "Best Group Blog" by their peers. The successes of the DeSmogBlog have attracted the attention of the media in North America and the UK. Our work has generated stories in major traditional media outlets including The New York Times, The UK Guardian, BBC, The Globe and Mail, Associated Press and CBC. In our capacity as research experts in global warming misinformation campaigns we have assisted major media such as ABC News, Associated Press, BBC World Service and The Globe and Mail in the development of global warming story ideas and content.

What are your suggestions and/or links to other community news sites that should be added to the directory?
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