Consistency in Grassroots Reporting

The state of independent local online news, part 4: Seeking consistency from grassroots reporting
OJR.org, Oct. 30, 2008
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/davidwestphal/200810/1563/

David Westphal’s final day of OJR’s week-long look at the state of independent local online news start-ups. In this edition, he highlights ChiTown Daily News, a three-year-old news operation focusing on Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods. The nonprofit site is staffed almost entirely with citizen journalists. Included in the article is a Q&A with Geoff Dougherty, editor of the ChiTown Daily News.

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