January 18, 2011
CJR Launches Digital News Database
The challenge of keeping tabs on hundreds of digital news sites around the country just got a bit easier - Columbia Journalism Review has launched a tracking service for online news outlets it is calling the News Frontier Database.
The magazine says it expects the bulk of the entries ultimately to be the many local new operations cropping up around the United States. At launch, however, the listing is populated with 50 “prominent” sites, among them well-known national outlets like Politico (see its entry) and Huffington Post (entry), as well as niche sites like transportation project Streetsblog (entry) and hyperlocals like Baristanet (entry). See a full list of all current sites.
The database has original reported profiles and data sets on each site, and allows you to search by location, type of coverage, how long the site has been publishing, its staff size, whether it’s profit or non-profit, and its revenue sources and institutional support. CJR says more advanced search options are in development.
Criteria for inclusion in the database have sparked some interesting discussion. CJR says for sites to be included in the database they must be primarily devoted to original reporting and content, have at least one full-time employee, not be the web arm of a legacy media, and be working to become financially sustainable. Some commenters, however, challenged the notion of excluding local sites that include large quantities of user-generated content. CJR responded that the criteria are “open to interpretation.”
For more, see CJR’s detailed writeup on the launch of the new database, including a link to submit your own site.
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